• vt. 召集；对…进行点名；使振作
• n. 集合；检阅；点名册；集合人员
• vi. 召集；聚集
• n. (Muster)人名；(德、罗)穆斯特尔；(英)马斯特

来自拉丁语monstrare,显示，展示，来自monere,提醒，警告，词源同admonish,demonstration.后用于军事术语指召集，聚集，战前动员等。鼻音n脱落，比较dental,tooth.

muster

muster: see monster

muster (v.)

c. 1300, "to display, reveal, appear," from Old French mostrer "appear, show, reveal," also in a military sense (10c., Modern French montrer), from Latin monstrare "to show," from monstrum "omen, sign" (see monster). Meaning "to collect, assemble" is early 15c.; figurative use (of qualities, etc.) is from 1580s. To muster out "gather to be discharged from military service" is 1834, American English. To muster up in the figurative and transferred sense of "gather, summon, marshal" is from 1620s. Related: Mustered; mustering.

muster (n.)

late 14c., "action of showing, manifestation," from Old French mostre "illustration, proof; examination, inspection" (13c., Modern French montre), literally "that which is shown," from mostrer (see muster (v.)). Meaning "act of gathering troops" is from c. 1400. To pass musters (1570s) originally meant "to undergo military review without censure."

1. Muster needed just 72 minutes to win the one-sided match, 6-2, 6-3.

穆斯特尔仅用72分钟便以6比2、6比3拿下了这场实力悬殊的比赛。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He beat Thomas Muster of Austria three sets to love.

他3比0直取奥地利的托马斯·蒙斯特。

来自柯林斯例句

3. He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement.

他在西非四处奔走，为自己的运动争取支持。

来自柯林斯例句

4. I could not pass muster in his language.

我说不好他的语言。

来自柯林斯例句

5. Go and muster all the men you can find.

去集合所有你能找到的人.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》