| 释义 |
overfly, v.|əʊvəˈflaɪ|
[f. over- 4, etc. + fly v.1: cf. MHG. übervliegen, Ger. überfliegen, Du. overvliegen. For this, OE. and ME. had oferfléon, ouerfle: see overflee.]
1. a. trans. To fly over, to cross or pass over by flying. [over- 4.]
1558T. Phaer æneid iv. K j b, Non otherwise Mercurius..Did shear the winds, and ouerflew the shores of Lybi sands. 1693Dryden Persius' Sat. iv. (1697) 459 A sailing Kite Can scarce o'erfly 'em in a Day and Night. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 412 A length of Ocean and unbounded sky, Which scarce the Sea-fowl in a year o'er-fly. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. 18 Overflying it with a dangerous transcendental wing.
†b. fig. To pass over, omit, skip. Obs.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 179 Some like accidents of dislike for breuity I ouerfly: young bloud is hot.
c. To fly beyond. [over- 12.]
1876J. Martineau Ess. (1891) IV. 263 We cannot overfly our own zone.
d. Of an aircraft or its passengers: to fly over (a specified point, area, etc.). Also absol. Hence ˈoverflying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1944L. L. Sell Eng.-Spanish Techn. Dict. 861 Over⁓fly the field, to. 1946Happy Landings (Air Ministry) July 7/1 Istres was planned as our first stop, but a ‘mistral’ put that airfield out of action and we had to overfly to Elmas (Sardinia). 1948Shell Aviation News No. 120. 8/3 Following winds enabled us to overfly Marseilles, which we had intended as our first stop. 1957Times 19 Sept. 8 A proposal by South Africa that she should be granted certain over-flying rights in the High Commission Territories has been accepted in principle by the British Government. 1958‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose vi. 228 With the greater range of these aircraft we could overfly Canton and go direct to Fiji. 1965Listener 2 Sept. 338/1 Any society will have..its quota of nuclear installations where overflying is prohibited. 1966New Scientist 22 Dec. 669/2 The aircraft overflown by the supersonic liners, will ‘take a fine old walloping’. 1973Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 7/1 Mr Josefsson has been fighting for years to get rid of the Nato base at Keflavik, a vital link in tracking overflying Russian aircraft. 1973‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing ii. 22 Did you get official overflying permission?.. Did you get official permission from the Algerian government to overfly their territory? 1977R.A.F. News 5–18 Jan. 2/4 By remarkable coincidence, the golf course was overflown by two Phantom aircraft on a local low-level route.
2. To surpass in flight; to fly higher, faster, or farther than; to outsoar. [over- 22.]
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 324 Out-stripping crows that strive to over-fly them. 1595Markham Sir R. Grinvile cxxxii, Thine honour, former honours ouer-flyes. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 148 Were I to ask for angel's wings to overfly my own human nature. 1870Lowell Study Wind., Pope (1886) 337 Gray, whose ‘Progress of Poetry’..overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle. 1954D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 278 It is of interest to note that the northern birds in general arrive somewhat earlier in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and so ‘over-fly’ their relatives from more southerly breeding places.
†3. To fly (a hawk) too much. Obs. [over- 27.]
[1575Turberv. Faulconrie 155 The higher fleeing that a hawke is, the more neede..to regarde that you ouerflee hir not.] 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 714 His owner can seldome ouer-flye him, no, though he flye him sixe or seuen flights in a morning.
4. To exceed (the maximum flying-time allowed by regulations).
1966Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 12/3 One or two of the pilots had ‘overflown’ their regulation number of hours and had to present themselves for ‘medicals’. |