| 单词 | parachute |
| 释义 | parachute (once / 2957 pages) nv A parachute fills with air and breaks the fall of someone falling from an airplane. If your airplane is in trouble, and you need to jump, your best friend is a parachute. That's the device people jumping from airplanes use to slow down their falls. A parachute fills up like a balloon, slowing the person down so they fall to the ground gently and safely. People who jump out of planes for fun also use parachutes. When you do this, you're parachuting. Whether for fun or because of your plane's mechanical failure, parachuting is exciting. WORD FAMILYparachute: parachuted, parachuter, parachutes, parachuting, parachutist+/parachuter: parachuters/parachutist: parachutists USAGE EXAMPLESOther approaches focus on netting drones, either via bigger drones or by guns firing a net and a parachute via compressed gas. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Though Mr. Johnson’s investment group was outmaneuvered, he was perhaps the biggest winner, walking away with a “golden parachute” payment of about $50 million. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) The Guinness Book of World Records says the plunge was from a height of 33,000 feet, the longest recorded fall without a parachute. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall Syn|Hypo|Hyper chute drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly drogue parachutea small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack parasailparachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car rescue equipment equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency 2v jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute Syn|Hypo|Hyper chute, jump sky dive, skydive jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute dive, plunge, plunk drop steeply |
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