astern [əˈstɜ:rn]

例句:

• At the crucial moment, the barge would not go astern.
  在关键时刻，驳船不能向后驶。
  
• The captain was astern, pretending he was sleeping.
  船长在船尾，假装睡着了。
  
• One of the fishing boats sank down astern of us.
  有一艘渔船在我们后面沉没了.
  
• Keeping half his boat's length astern of the other boat.
  来自Dickens
• Free as the petrels hovering astern.
  来自N. Hampson
• If he had expected to leave British snobbery astern with his public school he was sadly mistaken.
  来自M. Lowry