英语词汇“to push the envelope”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P13. Originally Aeronautics. to push the envelope and variants: to approach or go beyond the current limits of performance (see envelope n. Additions); to exceed or extend the boundaries of what is considered possible or permissible; to pioneer or innovate.Popularized in U.S. author Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the space programme The Right Stuff.

ΚΠ

1970 Air Line Pilot Mar. 21/1 We expect to push the flight envelope out to Mach 2 sometime this spring.

1978 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 3 July 110/3 The aircraft's altitude envelope must be expanded to permit a ferry flight across the nation. NASA pilots were to push the envelope to 10,000 ft.

1979 T. Wolfe Right Stuff (1980) i. 8 One of the phrases that kept running through the conversation was ‘pushing the outside of the envelope’... [That] seemed to be the great challenge and satisfaction of flight test.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Apr. d1 If you're going to be a star daredevil, then, by God, you've got to be daring. You don't get applause just for pushing the envelope anymore. It's as if you have to tear it open.

1989 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 23/1 ‘What we want’, he tells the audience, ‘is to create the next computing revolution. We want to push the envelope’.

1993 Washington Post (National Weekly ed.) 7 June 23/1 Steven Bochco is offering a new series this fall on ABC, ‘NYPD Blue’, that, it has been widely predicted, will ‘push the edge of the envelope’ of profanity, nudity and artistic violence.

2002 Time 28 Jan. 21/2 Andersen..worked overtime to show that..it was merely trying to serve a secretive and aggressive client who was pushing the envelope on accounting rules that aren't very clear anyway.

单词	to push the envelope
释义	> as lemmas to push the envelope P13. Originally Aeronautics. to push the envelope and variants: to approach or go beyond the current limits of performance (see envelope n. Additions); to exceed or extend the boundaries of what is considered possible or permissible; to pioneer or innovate.Popularized in U.S. author Tom Wolfe's 1979 book about the space programme The Right Stuff. ΚΠ 1970 Air Line Pilot Mar. 21/1 We expect to push the flight envelope out to Mach 2 sometime this spring. 1978 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 3 July 110/3 The aircraft's altitude envelope must be expanded to permit a ferry flight across the nation. NASA pilots were to push the envelope to 10,000 ft. 1979 T. Wolfe Right Stuff (1980) i. 8 One of the phrases that kept running through the conversation was ‘pushing the outside of the envelope’... [That] seemed to be the great challenge and satisfaction of flight test. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Apr. d1 If you're going to be a star daredevil, then, by God, you've got to be daring. You don't get applause just for pushing the envelope anymore. It's as if you have to tear it open. 1989 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Aug. 23/1 ‘What we want’, he tells the audience, ‘is to create the next computing revolution. We want to push the envelope’. 1993 Washington Post (National Weekly ed.) 7 June 23/1 Steven Bochco is offering a new series this fall on ABC, ‘NYPD Blue’, that, it has been widely predicted, will ‘push the edge of the envelope’ of profanity, nudity and artistic violence. 2002 Time 28 Jan. 21/2 Andersen..worked overtime to show that..it was merely trying to serve a secretive and aggressive client who was pushing the envelope on accounting rules that aren't very clear anyway. extracted from pushv. < as lemmas
随便看	chapemaker chaperon chaperonage chaperonages chaperone chaperoned chaperonee chaperones chaperoning chaperonless chaperons chaperonship chapes chapess chapesses chapfallen chapfallenly chapitel chapiter chapiters chapitle chaplain chaplain of the pope chaplain-in-ordinary chaplaincies

> as lemmas