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Picture a light sheet of paper handed out on a street corner — cheap, quick, meant to travel from hand to hand. The same word also names people connected with flying, so which meaning you get depends entirely on whether the sentence is about paper or about aircraft.

可以想成：街口有人發的一張輕薄紙片——印得便宜、發得快，就是要一手傳一手地散出去。同一個字也用來指跟飛行有關的人，所…更多收起可以想成：街口有人發的一張輕薄紙片——印得便宜、發得快，就是要一手傳一手地散出去。同一個字也用來指跟飛行有關的人，所以判斷是哪個意思，要看句子談的是紙還是飛機。

From the picture

跟飛行有關的人

這一支就是 fly 加上 -er：飛的人。至於是開飛機的還是坐飛機的，要靠上下文分辨。

airline passenger · noun · B1

a person who travels in an aircraft as a passenger.

搭機旅客

Also in this word

advertising leaflet · noun · A2

a small sheet of paper that advertises something, often given to people in the street or at school.

傳單

原始詞典資料19 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。

flyernoun詞源 1/ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    That which flies, as a bird or insect.

  • 2

    A machine that flies.

  • 3

    datedAn airplane pilot.

  • 4

    A person who travels by airplane.

  • 5

    A leaflet, often for advertising.

  • 6

    The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin

  • 7

    architectureAn arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.

  • 8

    acrobaticsartscheerleadingA person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.

另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentA stray shot away from the group on a target.

  • 10

    A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).

  • 11

    A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.

  • 12

    A leap or jump.

  • 13

    A risky investment or other venture.

    • It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.
  • 14

    informalA fast-moving person or thing.

    • An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
    • The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.
  • 15

    hobbieslifestylesportsA false start.

  • 16

    entertainmentlifestylemusicSynonym of flying cymbal.

flyerverb詞源 1/ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    To distribute flyers (leaflets).

    • Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.
  • 2

    To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。