1Make (a sailing ship or boat) ready for sailing by providing it with sails and rigging.

双体船将被装配成双桅纵帆船。

1. 1.1 Assemble and adjust (the equipment of a sailboat, aircraft, etc.) to make it ready for operation.
   装配并调整（帆船、飞机等的设备）
   most sails are kept ready rigged

   大部分帆已装配调整完毕。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • When Armand glanced out again early in the morning light he saw an old aluminum fishing skiff with an outboard astern, sporting an orange plastic tarp rigged amidships over the loading boom as a tent.
   • Speaking from the yacht yesterday, crewman Christian Hankel said they were moving well, a mast and sail had been rigged and the engine was working.
   • It may seem odd to see people rigging sails on their ships in space at first but what a glorious backdrop this is.
   • The equipment, about the size of a satellite dish, is rigged to the side of the ship.
   • He looked up at the starry sky, at the one sail they had rigged, and then at the ship's deck.
   • At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
   • They started rigging up the aircraft after unloading it from a trailer but the pilot was interrupted twice.
   • The flight controls had been carefully rigged to fractions of a degree while the wing slats were removed and then refitted to ensure a perfectly smooth fit.
   • When more medical supplies arrived, LAC Williams and I unloaded the aircraft, re - rigged it for the return journey and carried litter patients to the aircraft.
   • They rigged two mooring legs on the ship's fantail, consisting of anchors, chain and heavy cable attached to two buoys.
   • Apparently, the machine had been incorrectly rigged and Bob had his hands full in getting the Heinkel back on the ground.
   • Using powerful floodlights to attract the delicacy known to the Japanese as ika, the boats employ sails which are rigged astern to reduce the ship's roll in the ocean swells.
   • He told Matthews of his desire to have all available sail rigged and set.
   • The topmen were already working to rig the last of the sail and running rigging.
   • Gliders are left rigged ready for re-use in the hangar
   • I want that schooner mast patched and sail rigged as soon as possible.
2. 1.2 Set up (equipment or a device or structure), typically hastily or in makeshift fashion.
   （多指匆匆或临时）搭起（设备、装置或结构）
   he had rigged up a sort of tent

   他简单搭了个帐篷。

   the crew began to rig the camera equipment on a platform

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The poverty-stricken young Joe rigged up a make-do punchbag in his rickety garden shed.
   • Part of the pub has been sealed off to the form the ‘house’ and cameras have been rigged up, allowing fellow drinkers to monitor the progress of the contestants.
   • Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove.
   • Using more pipe fittings, we rigged up a weather vane, and then we were ready to install the dish roof.
   • The police have rigged up lights to keep watch, ordered taxi drivers not to pick him up, seized his home computer and cut off his telephone.
   • Surely he'd seen the commode in the corner of the dining room, because that thing was not completely hidden by the screen they had rigged up, no matter what Dottie said.
   • Until now, if your boat didn't have hot water the next best solution was to rig up a sun shower or heat up a pot on the stove.
   • The results began to trickle through on the ship's radio late at night; excitement grew as we strained to hear the results on the loudspeaker, rigged up for us by the Chief Engineer.
   • Various cars he'd wrecked littered the long drive and when I eventually found him he was riding a donkey over whose head he'd rigged up some wing mirrors.
   • Encased for months in plaster body casts, Kahlo began to paint lying in bed with a special easel rigged up by her mother.
   • In fact, I heard him only after the dispute began over the private kitchen he had rigged up for himself.
   • The next day a still was rigged, using wood from the wings as fuel.
   • Many fans that can't afford a generator have rigged up their televisions to car batteries to beat the blackouts.
   • He walked to a computer terminal, the display of which was rigged up to project its image onto a large white screen at the front of the briefing room.
   • Liberty's dad had been so tired of yelling all through the house for his children, that he rigged up a telephone system to each room.
   • There is no play tomorrow because the arena is being rigged up for television coverage which starts on Saturday.
   • By this point he had won the trust and respect of the subjects of his documentary to such an extent that they also acted as crew members for him, rigging up makeshift lights and constructing dollies that would run on the existing tracks.
   • Now and again the speeches would be interrupted for volleys of gunfire over the graves and choruses of martial-sounding music from loudspeakers rigged up around the cemetery.
   • The protesters rigged up a sound system outside the chief executive's home and blasted out aircraft noise for 15 minutes.
   • Jonah rigged up a narrow plywood sheet with screws threaded in at various points; it's now our camera mount and steadicam in one.

   Synonyms

   set up hastily, erect hastily, assemble hastily, throw together, cobble together, put together, whip up, improvise, devise, contrive, jury-rig
3. 1.3 Provide (someone) with clothes of a particular style or type.
   为…提供（特定种类的）服装
   a cavalry regiment rigged out in green and gold

   穿戴绿色和金色军服的骑兵团。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • He said: ‘It is intolerable that girl pupils should go into school rigged out in a dishcloth!’
   • At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
   • Hosannas to Ridley Scott, who made a star out of Sigourney Weaver by rigging her in a tight jumpsuit and launching her into space.
   • Do the seven-day trip rigged out in ponchos and fleece chaps just like local cowboys.
   • But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big.
   • Sure it's fun to get rigged up in some flapping strides and dance along to some dire disco every once in a while.
   • The man, upon seeing a knight rigged out in full armor sticking a lance in his face, fears for his life.

   Synonyms

   dress, attire, clothe, robe, garb, array, deck out, drape, accoutre, outfit, costume, get up, turn out, trick out, trick up

1The particular way in which a sailboat's masts, sails, and rigging are arranged.

游艇将以独特的帆装从造船厂驶出。

1. 1.1 The sail, mast, and boom of a sailboard.
   （风帆冲浪板的）帆、桅和张帆杆
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Windsurfing International was an American company which had a patent for the rig used on a windsurfer.
   • Mowday, who runs a factory in central Taiwan producing parts for windsurfing rigs and snowboard bindings, became one of the first to pioneer sailing in Penghu when he began windsurfing there six or seven years ago.
   • My 13-year-old son has no problem with balance and control on his windsurfing rig, but I struggle to stay on the board, never mind hauling up the sail, when I usually fall in!
   • Having lost his sail and rig, he was found curled around a buoy clinging to his board by a coastguard rescue helicopter from Lee-on-the-Solent.
   • Rent a rig at Windsurfing Hatteras, which also offers kiteboarding lessons.

2An apparatus, device, or piece of equipment designed for a particular purpose.

照明装置。

1. 2.1 An oil rig or drilling rig.
   石油钻塔；钻井架，钻塔
   Example sentencesExamples

   • But it's interesting to see the number of rigs piling up in the Cromarty Firth.
   • He's part of a team studying whether the growing number of gas rigs is driving the birds away and hastening their decline.
   • About 100 workers at five Tarananki onshore oil and gas exploration rigs in New Zealand's central North Island returned to work on November 21.
   • Lead anodes also have high resistance to corrosion by seawater, making them economical to use in systems for the cathodic protection of ships and offshore rigs.
   • Huge wages were paid to men on the rigs in those days, and were the envy of us landlubbers.
   • It was established that the East London crew was the closest helicopter team capable of landing on the rig.
   • But there is a bigger threat to their industry that may prove harder to disarm - the risk that fishermen jump ship for high wages on the rigs.
   • When he went there, Chesebrough noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.
   • The 324-ft-high rigs tower over the Portland waterfront.
   • Salvors plan to install a rig on to the seabed next to the vessel to speed up the clearance process.
   • Oil prices shot up nearly US $1.50 a barrel yesterday as oil and natural gas producers evacuated rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
   • Work boats will service the rig from the Geraldton Port, while the helicopters will be based at Geraldton Airport.
   • US warships escorted Iraqi oil tankers and assisted attacks on Iranian rigs.
   • The rig is on contract from Diamond Offshore Drilling in the United Kingdom.
   • Though they are not ships, oil and gas rigs in the ocean, and transoceanic cables too, are as worthy of naval attack and defense as any ship might be.
   • Production was cut at its rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and at onshore refineries such as Texas City, which was also the scene of a fatal fire in March.
   • Even a relatively small leak in the pipelines that carry oil and gas from offshore rigs to onshore facilities could leave hundreds of miles of coastline on Alaska's North Slope awash in oil.
   • The development of onshore power generation facilities for rigs is also being pushed forward to free up offshore gas for sale - previously platforms would have used their own supply to power themselves.
   • Traders were hoping that Wednesday's US petroleum inventories report would suggest how badly the young Atlantic hurricane season had hurt production at offshore rigs.
   • The US Coast Guard said at least seven rigs are adrift, while eight refineries have shut down.
2. 2.2 (in CB and shortwave radio) a transmitter and receiver.
   （民用波段无线电和短波无线电）收发机
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Many of us in younger years rebuilt surplus Motorola rigs for ham radio, and knew we could always get replacement parts, no matter how old, from Motorola.
   • The only thing not always attached to the rig is the carrier for the portable radio, furnished by Motorola for their radios.
   • While the others selected their weapons, Williams opened a toolbox full of encrypted Motorola multi-bandwidth radios, with throat-mike rigs.
   • Typically, a rig consists of a wireless radio transmitter used by the coach, and a wireless transceiver used by the speaker.
3. 2.3 A set of amplifiers and speakers used by a live band or a DJ in a club.
   （现场乐队等的）音像设备
   Example sentencesExamples

   • A unit like the MQ will separate your system from the typical home studio rig.
   • Whether in a guitar amp or a mic preamp, a high-gain circuit is the perfect rig for noise tests.
   • Guitar is 57 on the left rig, and a 57 and 88 on the right rig.
   • I place the rig behind the piano onstage, right next to my splitter box, set the levels at soundcheck and we're good to go.
   • At the end of the night, I check my tapes and unplug the rig.
   • Larger consoles, more equipment, a producer's desk for clients, keyboard rigs, and it must handle 5.1.
   • Just because you have an 02R or a Pro Tools rig doesn't make you a recording studio!
   • If you need an integrated, automatable audio test rig, dScope is something to look at.
4. 2.4 A particular type of construction for fishing tackle that bears the bait and hook.
   钓鱼用具，钓鱼设备
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Smaller two-hook rigs baited with fresh shrimp will take all the bottom feeders, which really come out to play as the tide drops off around low and high water.
   • So there we have three basic bait fishing rigs for pike that between them will cover most of our bait fishing situations.
   • I am also going to look in detail at the approach I take to my pike fishing and the tackle and rigs that I use.
   • Adrian then arrived to help me set up the livebait rigs for the cats.
   • At the end of the day my philosophy has always been to never take any short cuts with baits or rigs.
   • A lot of serious bream and tench anglers use double hook rigs and biggish leads.
   • Fishing these rigs and baits is simple, tap the bottom with your sinker, reel up four or five turns and wait for the bite.
   • This is really because I tend to use a hair rig or bait band and use hard pellets.
   • Davy baited up the skate rigs with whole mackerel, and we dropped them over the side.
   • It is only then that I cast out my end rig baited with two floating crysalids.
   • As with most heavily fished waters, the Carp in these lakes have seen most types of rigs and bait.
   • Masking the hook and rig becomes essential to ensure the bait lands safely on the bottom.
   • As for the bronzies, tackle and tactics could not have been more simple; fish baits, hugely simple rigs, no distance casting and plenty of action.
   • The only rig worth considering for both beach and rock fishing is a pulley rig.
   • In the third part of this series I am going to look at the rigs and terminal tackle that I use for bait fishing for pike.
   • Look at the horizon when changing rigs or even baits, this will help
   • Tackle, rigs, hook sizes are the same for both species of Smoothound.
   • I had fished this for carp, and caught quite a few tench on boiled baits and carp rigs.
   • Even with very careful baiting, using the very best baits and most effective rigs, these fish are a real devil to catch.
   • Add a 2oz weight and switch to a one hook rig with the bait clip positioned normally just above the lead.

3A person's costume, outfit, or style of dress.

美国陆军航空兵团的装束。

4North American Australian NZ A tractor-trailer.

1. 4.1US Another type of vehicle, such as a horse-drawn carriage.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • He's on a silver mountain bike, one of those cheap, full-suspension rigs you see in department stores.
   • Instead, having traded his big rig for a little rig, Meade now drives a pickup truck and spends his days running errands around town.
   • Should make for a most excellent ride on Saturday when hoards of local single speeders gather to test their skills piloting their rigs in the white stuff.
   • Since then that humble, hardy workhorse has gone on to evolve into everything from plush passenger vehicles to muscular military rigs like the Hum Vee.
   • Gathering their favorite dual suspension rigs, Kabush and Toulouse held later starting times by virtue of their high rankings on overall classification.
   • Gravity riders Jared Rando, Tara Llanes and Dustin Adams will captain DH Team rigs in downhill events, and riding Giant AC's in mountain cross events.
   • This truck is the smaller of the team's rigs - the one that it uses for most of its travel outside of Spain, save for the Tour de France, where it also uses its bigger Spain-based truck.
   • The driver of the No.5 Lowe's Racing rig is Dave Radney, and he takes good care of the crew.
   • The ‘Stab Garbonzo’ is a full-suspension rig designed to take the abuse of temporary riders on 2,165 feet of vertical drop.

1Manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to produce a result or situation that is advantageous to a particular person.

选举结果受人操纵了。

1. 1.1 Cause an artificial rise or fall in prices in (a market, especially the stock market) with a view to personal profit.
   （为个人获利）操纵（市场，尤指股票市场）价格
   he accused games manufacturers of rigging the market

   他控告各电脑游戏软件公司操纵市场价格。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • At no point, until two Senators called their bluff on Monday, did the bright sparks at The Economist magazine or DARPA acknowledge that such a market could be rigged.
   • Some markets are more obviously rigged than others.
   • King refers to his associate John Crudele's writing on the subject of how the stock market was to be rigged.
   • The government alleges that they got together and rigged commodity markets of their own volition.
   • The most serious forms of cartel identified by the authority were price-fixing, bid rigging and market sharing by competitors.
   • According to John Lewis, which had the backing of Comet and Tempo in its criticisms, the deals were an attempt to rig the home PC market and could result in price hikes for British shoppers.
   • Experts argue that share prices were effectively artificially rigged, which is why there has been no recovery.
   • From experience, the rest of us are more likely to conclude that markets are very likely to be rigged or gamed, and prone to collapse.
   • So much so that the market, when not rigged by the banks or the government, would make the spread practically zero.
   • This paper shows how Pentagon and other U.S. government contractors are rigging stock markets world wide through massive, coordinated, selective investments.
   • In a world such as this, it would be all so evident, the extent to which markets have been surreptitiously rigged already.
   • This means that renewable energy producers are being asked to compete in a rigged market.
   • Classic market rules, supply and demand considerations don't work in textbook fashion in a rigged market that is routinely manipulated by global central banks.
   • But is this crisis due to rigged markets for medical insurance as well?
   • U.S. stock markets are also capable of being systematically rigged, and for the same reason - a handful of players can dominate if they coordinate their actions.
   • That means the U.S. can simply ignore Chinese data on costs on the assumption they are distorted by subsidized loans, rigged markets, and the controlled yuan.
   • Other agents say their own negotiating strategies were a pragmatic response to a market they perceive as rigged.
   • Not the global free market, but a rigged version, which favours the already rich and powerful, and is policed by their institutions, on their terms.
   • In early June, the Feds indicted him for allegedly designing the schemes that rigged the California power market.

A trick or way of swindling someone.