parachute 的 3 个定义
- a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- parachute brake.
- Horology. a shockproofing device for the balance staff of a watch, consisting of a yielding, springlike support for the bearing at either end.
- Informal. the aggregate of benefits, as severance pay or vacation pay, given an employee who is dismissed from a company.golden parachute.
par·a·chut·ed, par·a·chut·ing.
- to drop or land by parachute.
par·a·chut·ed, par·a·chut·ing.
- to descend by parachute.
parachute 近义词
等同于 safety net
等同于 jump
更多parachute例句
- “What Chicago Public Schools is asking educators to do is like asking someone to jump out of the plane holding a blanket while a parachute is a few rows back,” Goodchild said.
- New Shepard autonomously steered itself back to the launchpad, while the crew capsule deployed parachutes and landed some distance away, about ten minutes after launch.
- We might all feel better and more prepared with a parachute strapped to our backs, but nobody wants to pull the cord.
- The two hadn’t separated, his parachute hadn’t deployed, and so he had slammed straight into the Earth.
- Maybe put a parachute on it if you want to play it safe, and drive them off cliffs.
- Are you the kind of criminal who steals a plane and then jumps without a parachute from high over a body of water?
- Daniel Craig, in his finest Bond dinner jacket, called at the Palace and invited her to parachute into the stadium with him.
- And for wingsuit divers, the only way flight can be “real” is if one can land without a parachute.
- The modern history of the flight, however, gets its start with Jacques-Sébastien Lenormand and his parachute in 1783.
- The second story, which really picks up steam in the latter half of the book, is the race to land without a parachute.
- A parachute-arrangement broke your speed at the bottom of the track.
- But he must have been burned some before he jumped, for he sent me a bit of his parachute, and the silk is badly scorched.
- You know he was falling head foremost all this time, and the parachute jerked him upright quicker than you could wink your eye.
- Tie strings to each corner of the handkerchief, he shouted into his ear, and make a little parachute.
- But the performance that stopped every heart and made every onlooker hold his breath was the parachute jumps.