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midair

/mid-air/US // mɪdˈɛər //UK // (ˌmɪdˈɛə) //

半空,半空中,半空的,半空中的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any point in the air not contiguous with the earth or other solid surface: to catch a ball in midair.

Examples

  • Her midair tricks such as “loop the loops” and the figure eight gained her a following rare for any woman, let alone a woman of color.

  • For longer jumps, or those that necessitated landing higher or lower than the starting point, many squirrels rotated midair, using their legs to “jump” off an adjacent vertical wall in a parkour-style maneuver.

  • The day of the accident, the company acknowledged on Facebook that one of its planes was involved in the fatal midair collision.

  • Our finding that Alaska has seen a series of midair collisions involving commercial flights relied on the NTSB’s midair collision flag to identify those crashes.

  • Fatal midair collisions involving commercial aircraft are practically unheard of in the rest of the country, but in Alaska, there have been five in the past five years alone.

  • In contrast, drones cannot refuel in midair, conduct airdrops, or carry a meaningful amount of munitions.

  • Sociologists refer to this sort of in-midair rapid switch as risk compensation.

  • He said nothing as startling as he did in his last midair press conference last July when he said “Who am I to judge?”

  • A traveler attempted to jump from their flight midair while another spat on fellow passengers in a fit of rage.

  • Dancers are suspended in midair like the cast of a ratchet Cirque du Soleil performance.

  • The three men lounged in midair, grinning foolishly as they "swam" about the tiny cabin.

  • For ten terrible seconds, while the man clung to wires and the mule hung trapped in midair, the other cable held.

  • Nothing, humbug, a house hanging in midair, which will tumble down directly mankind pronounces three short words: I will not.

  • The words trailed off softly and left the statement hanging interrogatively in midair.

  • The retreat struck us as breathlessly as though we had been whirled by a wind-storm into midair on the afternoon of a summer day.