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run-flat

/ruhn-flat/US // ˈrʌnˌflæt //

平地飞行,平地行驶,平底锅,平底化

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : constructed so as not to deflate completely after a puncture so that a motorist can still drive the vehicle for some distance.

Examples

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

  • Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

  • Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

  • The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.

  • Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

  • A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

  • But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

  • Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?

  • The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.