parachute
parachute
noun
noun
语源
noun
- a cloth canopy which fills with air and allows a person or heavy object attached to it to descend slowly when dropped from an aircraft, or which is released from the rear of an aircraft on landing to act as a brake
降落伞；减速伞
- drop or cause to drop from an aircraft by parachute
跳伞；用降落伞空投，伞投
[no obj.]airborne units parachuted in to secure the airport.
空降部队跳伞进入该地区保护机场。
[with obj.]an air operation to parachute relief supplies into Bosnia.
把救援物资伞投到波斯尼亚的空中行动。 - appoint or be appointed in an emergency or from outside the existing hierarchy
在紧急状态中任命…，紧急任命；在紧急状态中被任命，临危受命；任命最高层领导以外的人；被从最高领导层以外任命
[with obj.]the former Conservative minister was controversially parachuted into the safe seat.
原保守党大臣被紧急指派到这个靠得住的议会选区，对此争议颇多。
noun
语源
- late 18th cent.: from French para- 'protection against' + chute 'fall'
热门查询
- pronator n.旋前肌
- prone adj.易于…的,俯卧的,有…倾向的,倾斜的，坡陡的
- proneness n.俯伏，倾向
- pronephros n.前肾（脊椎动物最原始的泌尿器官）
- proneur n.<法>阿谀者，奉承者
- prong n.叉子齿,（进攻、论点等的）方面,（构成形容词）有…齿的,分…方面的
- pronged adj.尖端分叉的
- pronghorn n.<美>（墨西哥与美国西部产的）叉角羚
- prongy adj.叉状的，有叉尖的，有尖齿的
- pronograde adj.（四足兽）俯行的
- pronominal adj.代词的，代词性质的
- pronominalize vt.使（词）代词化，把（词）当作代词
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