beam-ends

中文翻译与英英解释

〔pl.〕 【航海】船梁末端 (on her beam-ends 船身快要倾覆。 on one's [the] beam-ends 濒临危境；计穷智尽；(经济)窘迫万分)。★亦可写作 on the beam's ends。

(nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel; "on her beam-ends" means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical

例句与用法

He is on his beam-ends .
他穷途末路了。