
aeroplane基本信息
读法:英 ["eərəpleɪn] 美 ["ɛrə"plen]
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英英释义
Noun:
中英词源
aeroplane 飞机
词根aero, 空气。plane, 展开,飞翔,同plan。后缩写为plane.
- aeroplane
- aeroplane: [19] The prefix aero- comes ultimately from Greek āér ‘air’, but many of the terms containing it (such as aeronaut and aerostat) reached English via French. This was the case, too, with aeroplane, in the sense of ‘heavier-than-air flying machine’. The word was first used in English in 1873 (30 years before the Wright brothers’ first flight), by D S Brown in the Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society – he refers vaguely to an aeroplane invented by ‘a Frenchman’.
The abbreviated form plane followed around 1908. (An earlier, and exclusively English, use of the word aeroplane was in the sense ‘aerofoil, wing’; this was coined in the 1860s, but did not long survive the introduction of the ‘aircraft’ sense.) Aeroplane is restricted in use mainly to British English (and even there now has a distinctly old-fashioned air). The preferred term in American English is airplane, a refashioning of aeroplane along more ‘English’ lines which is first recorded from 1907.
=> air - aeroplane (n.)
- 1866, from French aéroplane (1855), from Greek aero- "air" (see air (n.1)) + stem of French planer "to soar," from Latin planus "level, flat" (see plane (n.1)). Originally in reference to surfaces (such as the protective shell casings of beetles" wings); meaning "heavier than air flying machine" first attested 1873, probably an independent English coinage (see airplane).
词态变化
复数 aeroplanes;
权威造句
- 1. I didn"t get a wink of sleep on the aeroplane.
- 我在飞机上没合一下眼。
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- 2. The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.
- 飞机在空中盘旋,令人不堪忍受。
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- 3. The centre of pressure moves rearward and the aeroplane becomes unbalanced.
- 气压中心后移使飞机失去平衡。
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- 4. On the aeroplane I was befriended by a delightful German woman.
- 在飞机上,一位讨人喜欢的德国女士对我就像朋友一样。
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- 5. The company was considered as a possible subcontractor to build the aeroplane.
- 该公司被视为能够承担该飞机制造任务的潜在分包商之一。
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近反义词
相似短语
单词分析
这些名词均有“飞机”之意。aeroplane和airplane专指普通飞机,不包括helicopter(直升飞机)。aeroplane为英国英语的拼法。
airplane为美国英语的用词。
aircraft常用作集体名词,也可指一架飞机,其含义包括直升飞机和飞艇等。
plane本义为“平面”,在航空专业里通常用aeroplane。plane较通俗用词。
jet指喷气式飞机,也用jet plane。
helicopter指直升飞机。
记忆方法
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