Colours are still nailed to masts , metal though they now usually are .

旗帜依然被钉在桅杆上，尽管这些桅杆现在通常都是金属做的。

The bridge 's masts obscure the silhouette of the 16th-century suleymaniye mosque , a masterpiece by the ottoman architect sinan .

这座桥的桅杆遮挡了16世纪的苏莱曼清真寺的轮廓，这座清真寺是一位奥斯曼建筑师希南（sinan）的杰作。

He said that polo 's description of the mongol fleet did not square with the remains of ships that the team had excavated in japan , as he had written of ships with five masts , while those which had been found had only three .

他还说，马可？波罗关于蒙古舰队的描述也与考古队在日本挖掘出来的船舶遗骸不相符，他所记录的舰船有5支桅杆，而所发掘出的舰船只有3支桅杆。

But other times , the winds whip together into a black anvil storm that blooms through the depths of the troposphere , with a luminous violet glow gathering around ship masts and airplane wings - sailors call this st. elmo 's fire .

但其他时候，从对流层深处汇集的狂风形成了黑风暴雨，携着明亮的紫色光芒裹在船只的桅杆和飞机的机翼上--水手们把它叫做“圣艾摩尔之火”。

Operators struggled to build new masts , stymied by local planning-rules .

运营商们努力建造新的电线杆，但是却由于当地计划管制而无法做到。