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In winter sport, an aerialist is a whose real work happens after they leave the snow. They ski down a steep run-in, fly off a jump, and turn over in the air — twists, flips — before they try to land on a steep slope. That event is often just called aerials at the Winter Games. The given picture (someone going down a mountain doing jumps and turns in the air) is this sport, not skiing in general and not the kind of turning you do on the ground. Though actually, if you look the word up in a general dictionary, the older and still more common meaning is a circus artist who works high up: trapeze, silk ropes, a hoop hanging from the roof. Both uses are the same idea: a person whose act happens in the air. The ski sense is the narrow one this entry is for; the circus sense is the one most English speakers meet first.
空中技巧選手（花式滑雪）；也指馬戲團的空中飛人
組成aerial (in the air) + -ist (a person who does this).
同家族的字
- aerialin or of the air; the ski event aerials is this word in the plural
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aerialistnoun/ˈɛəɹɪəlɪst/
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An acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope.
- […] I chanced once, when I called during the day, to meet at the rehearsal M’lle Clarisse, the aerialist […] I looked at her carefully, and I could not divest myself of the impression that she was, in spite of her compact and strongly built little frame, much too delicate and fragile a person to go flying through the air from trapeze to trapeze.
- Of the two ways of making love, adultery must seem the safer, as the aerialist engaged in it swings to an eventual stop, or else lands in marriage itself which is strung out protectively under the highwire. Whereas a man failing in marriage has nothing to break the tumble.
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hobbieslifestyleskiingA specialist in aerials, a freestyle skiing discipline.
- Abramenko, a top aerialist in freestyle skiing, a five-time Olympian and the country’s flag-bearer for the opening ceremony, garnered more attention after the event, when a photograph of his hug with a Russian rival was widely circulated.
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obsoleteOne who operates a flying machine; a balloonist or aviator.
- 1803, A Dictionary of the Wonders of Art, London: T. Hurst, entry “Aeronautics,” p. 32, The balloon, however, having been torn in the lower part, both the cords and netting of the railing of the car broke, the wind again forced away the gentlemen from the tree they were strongly clasping; but with the assistance of a new, though last exertion, the aerialists had an opportunity of leaving the car and balloon, which fell upwards of 200 yards farther.
- The Frenchman, Paulhan, made several spectacular flights, but it is noticeable that while the American aerialists are less spectacular they are doing more to further the art of flying.
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obsoleterareA person whose knowledge of agriculture is purely academic and not derived from experience.
- 1825, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Volume 2, p. 1133, Book farmers, the aerialists of Marshal, are those who know agriculture only by reading about it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。