| 单词 | nose first |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnose first e. nose first: with the nose, esp. that of an aircraft, foremost. ΚΠ 1858 S. C. Eastman White Mountain Guide Bk. 15 We must..watch the foam sweep underneath like a race-horse—the backwater from each side overlaying the central current, so that it rushes in wedge shape.., nose first, through the gorge. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 59 Kaa looked carefully till he found a discoloured crack in the marble tracery.., and then..sent home half a dozen full-power, smashing blows, nose-first. 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 105 Porpoise, doing a, said when a submarine dives down nose first at a sharp angle. 1987 D. Brin Uplift War 267 The little spaceship..plunging nose first into the marshy river mouth. 2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Jan. 29/1 Unless the plane is a ‘tail dragger’, the soft gravel will make it land nose first into the ground. < as lemmas |
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