Fly
[flaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air.
(noun.) two-winged insects characterized by active flight.
(noun.) an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth.
(noun.) fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect.
(verb.) change quickly from one emotional state to another; 'fly into a rage'.
(verb.) hit a fly.
(verb.) transport by aeroplane; 'We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America'.
(verb.) be dispersed or disseminated; 'Rumors and accusations are flying'.
(verb.) travel in an airplane; 'she is flying to Cincinnati tonight'; 'Are we driving or flying?'.
(verb.) move quickly or suddenly; 'He flew about the place'.
(verb.) travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft; 'Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic'.
(verb.) cause to fly or float; 'fly a kite'.
(verb.) travel through the air; be airborne; 'Man cannot fly'.
(verb.) operate an airplane; 'The pilot flew to Cuba'.
(verb.) pass away rapidly; 'Time flies like an arrow'; 'Time fleeing beneath him'.
(verb.) display in the air or cause to float; 'fly a kite'; 'All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N.'.
(adj.) (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked .
埃莉诺校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
(v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
(v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
(v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
(v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
(v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
(v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
(v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
(v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
(v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
(v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
(v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
(v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
(v. i.) A parasite.
(v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
(v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
(v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
(v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
(v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
(v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
(v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
(v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
(v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
(v. i.) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
(v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
(v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
(v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
(v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
(v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
(a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
錄入:希莉娅
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Soar, mount, hover, take wing.[2]. Flutter, float, wave, undulate.[3]. Burst, explode, be scattered, break in pieces, be broken to pieces.[4]. Flee, escape, decamp, abscond, make off, pack off, slip away, steal away, slink away.[5]. Pass, elapse, slip, glide, flit, roll on, flow on.
n. [1]. Winged insect.[2]. Fly-wheel.[3]. Compass card.
手打:莫林
同義詞及反義詞:
[See FLEE]
贝丝編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to move through the air on wings: to move swiftly: to pass away: to flee: to burst quickly or suddenly: to flutter.—v.t. to avoid flee from: to cause to fly as a kite:—pr.p. fly′ing; pa.t. flew (flōō); pa.p. flown (flōn).—n. a popular name best restricted in its simplicity to the insects forming the order Diptera but often so widely used with a prefix—e.g. butterfly dragon-fly May-fly—as to be virtually equivalent to insect: a fish-hook dressed with silk &c. in imitation of a fly: a light double-seated carriage a hackney-coach: (mech.) a flywheel: (pl.) the large space above the proscenium in a theatre from which the scenes &c. are controlled.—adj. wide-awake: (slang) knowing.—adjs. Fly′away flighty; Fly′-bit′ten marked by the bite of flies.—n. Fly′blow the egg of a fly.—adj. Fly′blown tainted with the eggs which produce maggots.—ns. Fly′boat a long narrow swift boat used on canals; Fly′book a case like a book for holding fishing-flies; Fly′-catch′er a small bird so called from its catching flies while on the wing; Fly′-fish′er one who fishes with artificial flies as bait; Fly′-fish′ing the art of so fishing; Fly′-flap′per one who drives away flies with a fly-flap; Fly′ing-bridge a kind of ferry-boat which is moved across a river by the action of the combined forces of the stream and the resistance of a long rope or chain made fast to a fixed buoy in the middle of the river; Fly′ing-butt′ress an arch-formed prop which connects the walls of the upper and central portions of an aisled structure with the vertical buttresses of the outer walls; Fly′ing-camp a body of troops for rapid motion from one place to another; Fly′ing-Dutch′man a Dutch black spectral ship whose captain is condemned for his impieties to sweep the seas around the Cape of Storms unceasingly without ever being able to reach a haven; Fly′ing-fish a fish which can leap from the water and sustain itself in the air for a short time by its long pectoral fins as if flying; Fly′ing-fox a large frugivorous bat; Fly′ing-lē′mur a galeopithecoid insectivore whose fore and hind limbs are connected by a fold of skin enabling it to make flying leaps from tree to tree; Fly′ing-par′ty a small body of soldiers equipped for rapid movements used to harass an enemy; Fly′ing-phalan′ger a general popular name for the petaurists; Fly′ing-shot a shot fired at something in motion; Fly′ing-squid a squid having broad lateral fins by means of which it can spring high out of the water; Fly′ing-squirr′el a name given to two genera of squirrels which have a fold of skin between the fore and hind legs by means of which they can take great leaps in the air; Fly′leaf a blank leaf at the beginning and end of a book; Fly′-line a line for angling with an artificial fly; Fly′-mak′er one who ties artificial flies for angling; Fly′man one who works the ropes in the flies of a theatre; Fly′pāper a porous paper impregnated with poison for destroying flies; Fly′-pow′der a poisonous powder used for killing flies; Fly′-rail that part of a table which turns out to support the leaf.—adj. (Shak.) moving slow as a fly on its feet.—ns. Fly′-rod a light flexible rod used in fly-fishing usually in three pieces—butt second-joint and tip; Fly′-trap a trap to catch flies: (bot.) the spreading dog-bane also the Venus's fly-trap; Fly′wheel a large wheel with a heavy rim applied to machinery to equalise the effect of the driving effort.—Fly at to attack suddenly; Fly in the face of to insult: to oppose; Fly open to open suddenly or violently; Fly out to break out in a rage; Fly the kite to obtain money as by accommodation bills the endorser himself having no money; Fly upon to seize: to attack.—A fly in the ointment some slight flaw which corrupts a thing of value (Eccles. x. i.); Break a fly on the wheel to subject to a punishment out of all proportion to the gravity of the offence; Let fly to attack: to throw or send off; Make the feathers fly (see Feathers).
整理:劳拉
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of flies, denotes sickness and contagious maladies. Also that enemies surround you. To a young woman this dream is significant of unhappiness. If she kills or exterminates flies, she will reinstate herself in the love of her intended by her ingenuity.
To dream of fly-paper, signifies ill health and disrupted friendships.
To see a fly-trap in a dream, is signal of malicious designing against you. To see one full of flies, denotes that small embarrassments will ward off greater ones.
芭比整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A familiar summer boarder who mingles with the cream of society, gets stuck on the butter and leaves his specs behind.
伊恩校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Think you, Tars Tarkas, that John Carter will fly at the first shriek of a cowardly foe who dare not come out into the open and face a good blade? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I do not think Flora would hurt a fly. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The man touched his hat, got out of the fly immediately, and gave me the letter. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Forced to fly her husband's roof by this insult, the coward had pursued his revenge by taking her child from her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But I remember with the blowing of the train the lamp of the engine blew by over my head and pieces of steel flew by like swallows. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- All this time I stood watching the turkeys to see where they flew--with my gun on my shoulder, and never once thought of levelling it at the birds. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Of all wells, from one fathom to six or seven, the water flew out at the top with a vehement motion. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- An old woman who seems to have been flying into town on a broomstick, every now and then. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- A bird flying to the hedge,' was all he thought about it; and came back, and resumed his walk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She came flying into my room when I was ill in bed, and frightened me half out of my wits. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You would be amazed to hear how my brother, Mr. Suckling, sometimes flies about. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- When he leaves go of his hat to use his telescope, his hat flies off, with immense applause. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Hunted, she flies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- One longs to be high-flown, and make speeches like Corneille, after it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There's some of the birds flown from the cages. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Germany meantime was intensely interested in Count Zeppelin’s dirigible balloons, which, although as long as a battle-ship, had flown with great success. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A second since she would have flown to him; that second past, she would flee from him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
手打:路易