rocket
rocket1
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rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
rocket2
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noun
- a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal
（尤指用作烟火或信号的）火箭
■(亦作 rocket engine 或 rocket motor)an engine operating on the same principle, providing thrust as in a jet engine but without depending on the intake of air for combustion
火箭发动机，（以喷气发动机作为动力的）火箭
■an elongated rocket-propelled missile or spacecraft
火箭弹；火箭导弹；火箭推进式航天器
■used, especially in similes and comparisons, to refer to a person or thing that moves very fast or to an action that is done with great force
（像火箭般）快速行动者；飞快行进的物体；有力的行动
she shot out of her chair like a rocket.
她像火箭般飞快从椅子上弹了起来。 - The earliest use of rockets was in China, where rockets propelled by gunpowder were in use probably by AD 1232. The first liquid-fuelled rocket was launched in the US in 1926, and in Germany the V-2 rocket was used against the Allies in the Second World War. After the war rockets were developed to carry nuclear warheads, launch satellites, and assist in space exploration, culminating in the American Saturn V rocket used to lift the Apollo missions into earth orbit. At the same time solid-fuelled rockets have continued to be developed as artillery and aircraft weapons
- [in sing.](Brit. informal)a severe reprimand
(英，非正式)严厉的斥责
- [noobj.](of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly
（数量、价格等）迅速增长；猛涨
sales of milk in supermarkets are rocketing.
超市牛奶的销售量飞速上升。
[as adj. rocketing]rocketing prices.
飞涨的价格。
■[with adverbial of direction]move or progress very rapidly
飞快移动；飞速行进；迅速上升
he rocketed to national stardom.
他像火箭般迅速跃为国家明星。
■[with obj. and adverbial]cause to move or progress very rapidly
使飞速行进；使迅速上升
she showed the kind of form that rocketed her to the semi-finals last year.
她表现了去年使她迅速进入半决赛的那种竞技状态。 - [with obj.]attack with rocket-propelled missiles
用火箭轰击
the city was rocketed and bombed from the air.
这个城市从空中遭到火箭和炸弹的袭击。
rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
- rise suddenly and dramatically (and subsequently fall in a similar manner)
迅速崛起，迅速败落
- early 17th cent.: from French roquette, from Italian rocchetto, diminutive of rocca 'distaff (for spinning'), with reference to its cylindrical shape
rocket2
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- (亦作garden rocket 或 salad rocket)[mass noun]an edible Mediterranean plant of the cabbage family, sometimes eaten in salads
芝麻菜；紫花南芥。 参见 arugula - Eruca vesicaria, subsp. sativa, family Cruciferae
拉丁名Eruca vesicaria，栽培亚种，十字花科
■used in names of other fast-growing plants of this family, e.g. London rocket, sweet rocket
[用于十字花科中其他生长快速的植物名中，如London rocket, sweet rocket]
- late 15th cent.: from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca 'downy-stemmed plant'
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