Aerial
['eərɪəl] or ['ɛrɪəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) existing or living or growing or operating in the air; 'aerial roots of a philodendron'; 'aerial particles'; 'small aerial creatures such as butterflies'; 'aerial warfare'; 'aerial photography'; 'aerial cable cars' .
布雷迪錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.
(a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
(a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.
(a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.
(a.) Light as air; ethereal.
編輯:桑德拉
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Atmospheric.[2]. Aeriform, gaseous, vaporous, ethereal, airy, empyreal, light.[3]. High, lofty.
手打:马吉
解釋/意思:
adj. belonging to the air: inhabiting or existing in the air: elevated lofty ethereal.—ns. Aerial′ity Aer′ialness.—adv. Aer′ially.
編輯:利瓦伊
例句/造句/用法:
- It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart,--delicate and aerial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Information is flashed to meet or overtake the vessel and caught up by her aerial, as she pursues her way at twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They made new tables of calculation for aerial flight, and found that a wind of eighteen miles an hour would keep their plane and its operator in the air. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The new plants, now that they had acquired the power to live this new aerial life, developed with an extraordinary richness and variety. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Langley had in fact furnished experimental proof that the aerial locomotion of bodies many times heavier than air was possible. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There will be an aerial bombardment as preparation. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Such a thing as aerial fighting was unheard of. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was a radio-aerial message to the commander of the submarine: The slaves have risen. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- What is an Aerial Railway Like? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I was too old a hand in aerial warfare to be at a loss now for the right manoeuvre. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Pictorial Story of Fire Apparatus [Illustration: MOTOR DRIVEN AERIAL TRUCK[47] 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- For aerial ropeways they are extensively employed, and are of high value in bridge building, the suspension bridge being sustained by them. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Although terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aerial mammals do occur on almost every island. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- A flash of lightning is liable to give rise to a wave of enormous power which will set half the aerials on the earth vibrating in spite of the differences of pitch to which they are tuned. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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