mother ship
noun [ C ] (also mothership) uk/ˈmʌð.ə ˌʃɪp/ us/ˈmʌð.ɚ ˌʃɪp/
（护航或提供给养的）母舰，母船
a large ship or spacecraft from which other smaller ones are launched (= start to travel) or get supplies
It was a mother ship from which pirates launched smaller attack boats. 海盗从一艘母船那里降下小型攻击船只。
They fire a small probe into the comet, then analyze the material from a nearby mothership. 他们向彗星发射了一个小型探测器，然后在位于附近的宇宙飞船母船上分析彗星的物质。
控制中心
a central organization or part of something that controls other parts or organizations, or that supplies what they need
This sneaky software collects information about your browsing habits and relays it back to the mother ship. 这个不动声色偷偷运行的软件会收集有关你浏览习惯的信息，并传回给控制中心。
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- The harbour was shallow so small boats went in, out of range of their mother ships.
- The spaceship will be carried aloft by a mothership and then released to rocket into space at roughly 2,100 mph.
- Japan has decided to pull its whaling fleet out of the Antarctic and end this year's whale hunt early after a deadly fire crippled its mothership.
- The show has had multiple spinoffs but audiences still love the original, the "mother ship" as the network calls it.
- We've had some good beers at other taverns, but we decided it was time to revisit the mothership.
- This network may include raw-material suppliers, resellers, and other organizations intimately connected with a corporate mothership.