释义 |
sound barrierˈsound ˌbarrier noun  - At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier.
- Fast fighter jets -- many traveling within earshot of the sound barrier -- will headline the shows.
- I've even taken an F-15 jet to within a whisker of the sound barrier.
- In 1979, Stanley Barrett broke the sound barrier on land.
► break the sound barrier (=travel faster than the speed of sound) the sound barrier the sudden increase in air pressure against a vehicle, especially an aircraft, when it is travelling near the speed of soundbreak the sound barrier (=travel faster than the speed of sound) |