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种产品之前，更彻底全面的想想这些问题，他们也许做得会更好。
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.
我不愿坐在房舱里，宁肯站在世界的桅杆前与甲板上，因为从那里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.
也许更残酷的是在1718年海盗们将他们俘虏中的一个绑在桅杆上，先向他扔玻璃瓶，然后拿他当箭靶。

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