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levitate

/lev-i-teyt/US // ˈlɛv ɪˌteɪt //UK // (ˈlɛvɪˌteɪt) //

升空,浮空,悬浮,漂浮

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lev·i·tat·ed, lev·i·tat·ing.

    • : to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lev·i·tat·ed, lev·i·tat·ing.

    • : to cause to rise or float in the air.

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Examples

  • These two qualities open up a whole host of possibilities, including lossless power lines and electronic circuits, ultra-sensitive sensors, and incredibly powerful magnets that could be used to levitate trains or make super-efficient turbines.

  • They could revolutionize the electric grid and enable levitating trains, among many other potential applications.

  • In a container, liquid can be levitated over a layer of gas by shaking the container up and down.

  • Going bottom-up is no problem for a boat on the underside of a levitating liquid.

  • Objects can float along the bottom of this levitated liquid.

  • “I can levitate,” he says, and he tries to get up from the couch, but he cannot.

  • His body appears to levitate—his left foot is off the ground.

  • One family “watched as the heavy wooden bedroom dresser eerily began to levitate a few inches off the floor.”

  • Matilda wins through her intelligence and a blossoming superpower to levitate objects with her mind.

  • In the 1990s, this person was huge in pop culture, invested with mythical and mystical powers, and able to make things levitate.

  • There were supposed to be men who could levitate—fly through the air at will.

  • They circled the Pentagon with hundreds of protestors and said a magic spell that was supposed to levitate it.

  • My body seemed to be of ethereal substance, ready to levitate.

  • My rat cannot levitate cheese-crumbs weighing more than 1.7 grams.

  • It was not necessary, he found, to walk into a large bank and simply seemingly levitate the money out the front door.