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bombardier

/bom-ber-deer, -buh-/US // ˌbɒm bərˈdɪər, -bə- //UK // (ˌbɒmbəˈdɪə) //

投弹手,轰炸机,庞巴迪,庞巴迪公司

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Military. the member of a bombing plane crew who operates the bombsight and bomb-release mechanism.
    • : History/Historical. artilleryman.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Dutch engineer Carl Norden’s invention of a bombsight that could supposedly enable a bombardier to drop a missile into a pickle barrel from six miles up had made precision bombing possible.

  • Neither, staring through his bombsight, could bombardier Umphress.

  • As a bombardier Yossarian is “the best man in the group at evasive action.”

  • The Canadian-built Bombardier Q400 turbo-prop had an automatic stall-protection system.

  • It was a different type of plane, a European-built ATR-72 (the Bombardier is a Canadian plane).

  • They were crouching in one of the gun-pits—a bombardier and three gunners, very cold and very miserable.

  • Fig. 508 presents Calosoma sycophanta pursuing a Bombardier (Brachinus explodens), which squirts out a vapour of pungent odour.

  • Bombardier Havelock was wounded in the thigh by fragments of shell.

  • Pickersdyke swore as he had not done since he was a rough-riding bombardier.

  • He had made himself one moment of leisure, and visited Bombardier Lane, but without result.