Flight
[flaɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; 'I took the noon flight to Chicago'.
(noun.) an instance of traveling by air; 'flying was still an exciting adventure for him'.
(noun.) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next.
(noun.) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; 'a flight of fancy'; 'flights of rhetoric'; 'flights of imagination'.
(noun.) an air force unit smaller than a squadron.
(noun.) a formation of aircraft in flight.
(noun.) a flock of flying birds.
(verb.) fly in a flock; 'flighting wild geese'.
(verb.) shoot a bird in flight.
布伦特校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
(n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
(n.) Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
(n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
(n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
(n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
(n.) The husk or glume of oats.
手打:米米
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Flying, soaring, mounting, volitation.[2]. Fleeing, hasty departure.[3]. Flock (of birds).[4]. Volley, shower.
編輯:罗达
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Volitation, departure, escape, evasion, disappearance, flying, stampede,soaring, begin, fleeing, exodus
ANT:Recurrence, return, reappearance, perching, alighting, repose
格雷琴編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a passing through the air: a soaring: excursion: a sally: a series of steps: a flock of birds flying together: the birds produced in the same season: a volley or shower: act of fleeing: hasty removal.—adj. Flight′ed (Milt.) flying.—adv. Flight′ily.—n. Flight′iness.—adj. Flight′y fanciful: changeable: giddy.
博比編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of flight, signifies disgrace and unpleasant news of the absent. For a young woman to dream of flight, indicates that she has not kept her character above reproach, and her lover will throw her aside. To see anything fleeing from you, denotes that you will be victorious in any contention.
整理:泰丝
例句/造句/用法:
- Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was dined at the H?tel de Ville, given the Legion of Honor, and money was subscribed for a monument to mark the place near Calais where he commenced his flight. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up--with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse's leg. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Tarzan paused in his flight. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight, somewhat surprised me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Bois-Guilbert's new shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare le Corbeau. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- On being informed of the old man's flight, his fury was unbounded. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If they are interrupted in their flight she will be sure to come back to me, and I ought to be at the house to receive her. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He turned past the door of the parental bedroom like a shadow, and was climbing the second flight of stairs. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The moment that retreat had changed into a flight (as it was sure from its very character to do), he darted up the steps to Margaret. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Oliver felt such fear come over him when he recognised the place, that, for the instant, he forgot the agony of his wound, and thought only of flight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- A few weeks afterwards the poor woman's soul took its flight, I confidently hope, and solemnly believe, to a place of eternal happiness and rest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I shall say you're old-fashioned, and prefer walking up the five flights because you don't like lifts. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The early flights with No. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- After many experiments they succeeded, and on December 17, 1903, the first airship made four flights at Kitty Hawk. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- We imitate, says the guide in the Utopian land, also flights of birds; we have some degree of flying in the air; we have ships and boats for going under water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- At first few visitors panted up the long flights of steps to the breezy platform. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was up three flights of stairs backward, at an Italian warehouse. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They were ready to try mechanical flights in places where the wind-conditions were less favorable than at Kitty Hawk. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They are men of remarkable balance, and it was their quality of unremitting care that made them the wonder of Europe, used above all things else to the dramatic in men’s flights through air. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- You go up nine flights of stairs before you get to the first floor. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The pictures were taken during the army test flights at Fort Myer, Virginia. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A German engineer, Otto Lilienthal, made a study of the mechanics of birds’ flights, and determined to learn their secret by actual trial. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
整理:温弗雷德