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pathfinder

/path-fahyn-der, pahth‐/US // ˈpæθˌfaɪn dər, ˈpɑθ‐ //UK // (ˈpɑːθˌfaɪndə) //

探路者,寻路者,寻路人,开拓者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
    • : an airplane, or a person dropped from a plane, sent into a target area to illuminate the area for succeeding aircraft.
    • : a radar beacon beamed into a target area to provide guidance for missiles seeking the target.
    • : an unmanned spacecraft that landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, to obtain climatic and geologic data.

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Examples

  • While they now mostly lead tours through the rugged landscape, their expertise as pathfinders is still an extremely valuable skill.

  • Eventually, he packed up his Nissan Pathfinder and drove back to Iowa.

  • Perhaps it will be most instructive at this point to quote the words of the great Pathfinder himself.

  • The pathfinder has often gotten his hands and face badly torn by the thick brambly thorn bushes as he pushed resolutely on.

  • Hark'e Pathfinder, I very much doubt if this stripe of water here be even a lake; for to me it appears to be only a river.

  • He accordingly accompanied his niece, leaving Sergeant Dunham and his friend, the Pathfinder, alone together.

  • The fact was; few knew the Pathfinder intimately without secretly believing him to be one of extraordinary qualities.