Balloon

[bə'luːn] or [bə'lun]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air.

(noun.) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck.

(verb.) become inflated; 'The sails ballooned'.

(verb.) ride in a hot-air balloon; 'He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China'.

哈洛錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.

(n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

(n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

(n.) A bomb or shell.

(n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.

(n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

(v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

(v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.

(v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

整理:玛丽斯

解釋/意思:

n. an inflated air-tight envelope of paper or silk constructed to float in the air and carry a considerable weight when filled with heated air or light gas: anything inflated empty: (obs.) a game played with a large inflated ball.—v.i. to ascend in a balloon: to puff out like a balloon.—n. Balloon′ist an aeronaut.

手打:凯勒