slingshot

slingshot
noun
  1. a hand-held catapult
    弹弓
    ■a shot from a hand-held catapult
    弹弓射弹
    ■[often as modifier]the effect of the gravitational pull of a celestial body in accelerating and changing the course of another body or a spacecraft
    弹射飞行
(-shotting; past and past participle -shot -shotted)
  1. forcefully accelerate or cause to accelerate through use of gravity
    (利用引力)加速,使加速超前
    [no obj.]the car would hit the first dip, then slingshot off the second rise.
    汽车总是到第一个斜坡处加速冲越第二道坡。
    [with obj.]Jupiter's gravity slingshots the fragments toward Earth.
    木星的重力使碎片加速飞向地球。
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