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harrier

/har-ee-er/US // ˈhær i ər //UK // (ˈhærɪə) //

鹞子,鹞子号,鹞鹰,鹞子号飞船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who or thing that harries.
    • : any of several short-winged hawks of the genus Circus that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on reptiles and small birds and mammals.
    • : Military. a one- or two-seat British-American fighter, both an attack and a reconnaissance aircraft, featuring a turbofan engine with a directable thrust that enables it to land and take off vertically.

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Examples

  • But to do VL, the engine thrust must be pointed straight downward, and the jet is twice the size of a Harrier.

  • Remember the Harrier jump jet, the vertical takeoff and landing craft the British designed and Hollywood made famous?

  • But Jack Metcalf had more natural taste for the cry of a hound or a harrier than for the squeak of his fiddle.

  • Edward Henry pursued lightly, for though he appreciated Mr. Harrier, he also despised him.

  • Then it happened that the harrier Gonzalo thought most of, having bought him for a high price in England, misbehaved himself.

  • Besides the crows and fish-hawks, a harrier would now and then come skimming close along the grass.

  • But there is one bird that most certainly will be seen in the “harrier-country,” and that is the heron.