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A glider is a light plane that flies without an engine. It still has wings, a body, and a pilot; it just has no motor to pull it through the air.
A gliderglider is是 a light plane that flies without an engine一種沒有引擎也能飛的輕型飛機. It still has它仍然有 wings, a body, and a pilot機翼、機身和飛行員; it just has no motor to pull it through the air只是沒有馬達拉著它在空中前進.
It stays up by riding rising air — warm air going up, or wind hitting a hill and lifting. A powered plane or a winch often helps it get off the ground in the first place; after that, the pilot is flying on skill and weather.
It stays up它能維持在空中 by riding rising air靠的是乘著上升的氣流 — warm air going up溫暖的上升氣流, or wind hitting a hill and lifting或是風吹到山坡而形成的上升氣流. A powered plane or a winch有動力的飛機或絞盤 often helps it get off the ground in the first place通常會先幫助它離地; after that之後, the pilot is flying on skill and weather飛行員就靠技術和天氣飛行了.
People who fly them talk about “lift” and “sink” the way other pilots talk about engines. The word is ordinary and technical at the same time: a child can point at one, and a pilot can spend a lifetime learning it.
People who fly them開這種飛機的人 talk about “lift” and “sink”會談論「上升」和「下沉」 the way other pilots talk about engines就像其他飛行員談論引擎那樣. The word這個詞 is ordinary and technical at the same time同時是普通又專業的詞: a child can point at one小孩也能指著它說, and而 a pilot can spend a lifetime learning it一位飛行員卻可以花一輩子鑽研它.
Though actually, hang-gliders are a cousin of the same idea — a person hanging under a wing — but when someone says glider on its own, they usually mean the light plane.
Though actually雖然其實, hang-gliders滑翔翼 are a cousin of the same idea是同一個概念的表親 — a person hanging under a wing也就是人掛在機翼下面 — but但 when someone says glider on its own當有人單獨說 glider 這個字時, they usually mean the light plane通常指的是那種輕型飛機.
原始詞典資料10 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。
glidernoun/ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
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One who glides.
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Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
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A pilot of glider aircraft.
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Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
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Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
- The left drawer runner is probably replaced. Nail holes on the upper surface of the stretchers suggest the piece once had a bottom shelf. Modern metal gliders have been added under the feet.
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A kind of garden swing.
- Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.
- Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.
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cellular-automatacomputingengineeringIn the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:
- I believe it is indeed new -- I've gone back through everything I can find, as far back as the early 90's when Heisenburp devices were first invented, and there don't seem to be any reactions based on a glider suppressing a blinker.
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cellular-automatacomputingengineeringIn the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- It is a reversible rule, and an interesting one. Shortly after I implemented it, Chris and I were watching it run from a small random configuration of vants, when we noticed a structure consisting of 2 vants propagating away from the others -- it is a glider of sorts, consisting of 2 cooperating vants moving along, erasing each others' trail.
- I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
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。