- 1空運、空中運補（緊急把人或物資用飛機送進去）
An airlift is when people, food, medicine, or other supplies are carried by plane because roads or ships cannot do the job — a war, a flood, a broken bridge, a city that is shut off. The word often names the whole organised effort, not one single flight: aircraft going back and forth for days. As a verb, to airlift someone or something is to move them that way. News stories also stretch it: a hurt is airlifted to hospital by helicopter. That use is common and practical, even when it is one aircraft and not a wartime bridge of planes. It sounds like the news, the army, or a hospital, not like kitchen-table chat. Though actually, it is not a lift (an elevator) hanging in the sky, and it is not the same as ordinary air freight, which is just sending goods by plane in the usual way. An airlift has the feeling of an emergency, or of a special operation.
組成From air + lift. Compare sealift: the same idea, but by sea.
同家族的字
- liftthe second half; to pick something up and move it
- sealiftthe same kind of organised lift, but by sea
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
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airliftnoun/ˈɛə.lɪft/
- 1
The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
- 2
Such a flight.
- 3
archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
airliftverb/ˈɛə.lɪft/
- 1
To transport (supplies, troops, etc) in an airlift.
- The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.
- Emergency food and bottled water were airlifted into the earthquake zone.
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