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An airship is a large aircraft with no wings. It has an engine, and it is filled with gas so that it floats in the sky, like a long balloon you can steer. Zeppelins and blimps are kinds of airship.
An airshipairship is a large aircraft with no wings是一種沒有翅膀的大型飛行器 It has an engine它有引擎 and it is filled with gas裡面充滿了氣體 so that it floats in the sky讓它能浮在空中 like a long balloon you can steer就像一顆可以操控方向的長條氣球 Zeppelins and blimpsZeppelin飛船和blimp小型軟式飛船 are kinds of airship都是airship的一種
It is not an : an needs wings and speed; an airship stays up because the gas is lighter than air.
It is not an aeroplane它不是aeroplane飛機 an aeroplane needs wings and speedaeroplane需要翅膀和速度 an airship stays upairship能留在空中 because the gas is lighter than air是因為氣體比空氣輕
They were more common a hundred years ago; now you mostly see a fat advertising blimp, or pictures in a history book. A hot-air balloon is a cousin, but a balloon has no engine and is much harder to steer.
They were more common a hundred years ago一百年前它們比較常見 now you mostly see現在你多半只會看到 a fat advertising blimp胖胖的廣告用blimp小飛船 or pictures in a history book或是歷史課本裡的照片 A hot-air balloon is a cousin熱氣球是它的表親 but a balloon has no engine但熱氣球沒有引擎 and is much harder to steer操控方向也困難得多
Though actually, do not mix the craft up with a : an airship stays in our sky; it does not go into space. The word is the flying machine, not a ship on the sea with air in its name.
Though actually不過其實 do not mix the craft up with a spaceship別把這種飛行器和太空船搞混了 an airship stays in our skyairship只停留在我們的天空裡 it does not go into space不會進入太空 The word is the flying machine這個字指的是飛行器 not a ship on the sea with air in its name不是名字裡帶有air的海上船艦
組成From air + ship: a ship that travels in the air.
同家族的字
- shipthe second half; a large vessel, here one that travels in the air
原始詞典資料5 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。
airshipnoun
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
- Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA police air unit, a police helicopter.
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informalaeronauticsaerospaceaviationAny aircraft.
- On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.
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derogatoryA high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
- I only make them to add perhaps a little weight to my view that, whether one thinks of Their Lordships of the Admiralty, or of Their Airships of the Air Ministry, or of Their Coalships of Lansdowne House, or of any other governing body, what is vastly more important than the precise theoretical form of the superstructure is the will—and the capacity—throughout the organisation to make the organisation work.
- Then where does the Navy come in, since it is generally agreed that the primary role of the Navy is the protection of our merchant ships? It is obvious that neither their Lordships of the Admiralty nor their Airships of the Air Ministry will relinquish their power without a struggle.
airshipverb
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To transport goods by aircraft.
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。