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A dirigible is an : a big craft that stays up because it is filled with gas, and that can be steered. Old photographs show long silver dirigibles hanging over a city. The word came in from French: a ballon dirigeable was a “steerable balloon,” as against a balloon that only drifts with the wind. Today most people say , or blimp for the rounder, softer kind. Dirigible sounds a little old and technical — the sort of word you meet in history books, museums, and early-aviation stories. A Zeppelin is a famous German kind. Though actually, the same English word can be an adjective meaning “able to be steered,” but almost nobody uses that now; the noun “an ” is what you will meet. It is not a hot-air balloon you cannot point, and it is not an .
飛艇
組成From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).
原始詞典資料2 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。
dirigiblenoun/ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA self-propelled airship that can be steered.
- Do you know, Louis, of any great secret military camp where a surprise fleet of dirigibles and flying machines of a new and terrible pattern is being formed by a far-seeing Government as a reserve against the day of Armageddon?
- On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.
dirigibleadj/ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/
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steerable
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。