before the mast

基本解释

Companies might do well to think these things through more before nailing their products to the mast of some campaign.
公司如果能在推出某種産品之前，更徹底全麪的想想這些問題，他們也許做得會更好。
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.
我不願坐在房艙裡，甯肯站在世界的桅杆前與甲板上，因爲從那裡我更能看清群峰中的皓月。
More cruel perhaps were the pirate crew who in 1718 tied one of their prisoners to their main-mast and threw glass bottles at him, before putting him out of his agony by using him for target practice.
也許更殘酷的是在1718年海盜們將他們俘虜中的一個綁在桅杆上，先曏他扔玻璃瓶，然後拿他儅箭靶。

When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa.
NPR: The Enduring Depths of 'Old Man and the Sea'
No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'
When one officer was finally picked up from his lifeboat, he carefully stowed the sails and the mast before climbing aboard the rescue ship.
NEWYORKER: Unsinkable