aeroplane
英 ['eərəpleɪn]
美['ɛrə'plen]
- n. 飞机（等于airplane）
词态变化
复数: aeroplanes;
中文词源
aeroplane 飞机
词根aero, 空气。plane, 展开，飞翔，同plan。后缩写为plane.
英英释意
- 1. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets;
- "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
英文词源
- 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).
同义词辨析
aeroplane, airplane, aircraft, plane, jet, helicopter
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。
考试真题
- Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
实用场景例句
- An aeroplane started for Tokyo yesterday.
- 昨天有一架飞机飞往东京.
《简明英汉词典》
- He made a model of an aeroplane.
- 他做了一个飞机模型.
期刊摘选
- We'll go to Beijing by aeroplane.
- 我们将乘飞机去北京.
期刊摘选
- A flight in an aeroplane used to be quite an adventure.
- 从前乘飞机飞行是相当危险的事.
期刊摘选
- We took a flight in an aeroplane.
- 我们乘飞机飞行.
辞典例句
- The boy said the model aeroplane at the exhibition was put together by himself.
- 这个男孩说展览会上的那架飞机模型是他自己组装的.
期刊摘选
- The air resistance makes influence on the flight of an aeroplane.
- 空气阻力影响飞机飞行.
辞典例句
- What advantages has the hovercraft over the aeroplane?
- 气垫船有什么优于飞机的地方?
期刊摘选
- An aeroplane offers you an unusual and breathtaking view of the world.
- 飞机为你提供非凡的,令人惊诧不已的地球景色. (句中的view既有凝视的动作含义,又有风景的状态含义)
《用法词典》
- They saw enemy paratroops dropping from the aeroplane.
- 他们看到敌人伞兵部队从飞机上降下来.
《简明英汉词典》
- He went to Berlin by aeroplane.
- 他乘飞机到柏林.
《简明英汉词典》
- The habit of travelling by aeroplane is becoming more prevalent.
- 乘飞机旅行的习惯变得越来越盛行了.
《简明英汉词典》
- I can see that aeroplane, but I can't see a bird.
- 我能看见那架飞机, 但是小鸟我就看不见了.
《用法词典》
- The Hatfield Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Mr. John Wimpenny , is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.
- 哈特费尔德·普芬是一架时髦的飞机, 但设计这架飞机的人约翰·温佩尼先生感到很难使它飞离地面.
《用法词典》
- The aeroplane is flying over the river.
- 那架飞机正在那条河的上空飞行.
《用法词典》
- The aeroplane was flying a few feet above the sea.
- 飞机正在距海面几英尺的低空飞行.
《简明英汉词典》
- I didn't get a wink of sleep on the aeroplane.
- 我在飞机上没合一下眼。
柯林斯例句
- Mommy and I went in an aeroplane.
- 我和妈妈登上一架飞机。
柯林斯例句
- The voyage home began, but not before an intruding aeroplane had repeatedly circled the ship.
- 开始返航了，但是在这之前一架入侵的飞机曾反复在轮船上空盘旋。
柯林斯例句
- I had made a model aeroplane.
- 我做了一架模型飞机。
柯林斯例句
- It was a clumsy looking aeroplane.
- 那架飞机样子很难看。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- The centre of pressure moves rearward and the aeroplane becomes unbalanced.
- 气压中心后移使飞机失去平衡。
柯林斯例句
- She has jumped from an aeroplane four times.
- 她已经4次从飞机上跳下。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- As the aeroplane went down the runway the wing touched a pile of rubble.
- 飞机降落沿跑道滑行的时候机翼擦到了一堆碎石。
柯林斯例句
- As he stepped off the aeroplane, he was shot dead.
- 他一走下飞机便中枪身亡。
柯林斯例句
- The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot.
- 游击队击落了一架飞机，并俘获了飞行员。
柯林斯例句
- The aeroplane will travel at twice the speed of sound.
- 这架飞机的速度将是音速的两倍。
柯林斯例句