- 1尾流、滑流（高速載具後方的低氣壓帶；跟車、跟騎時借力用的那一區）
The slipstream is the band of quieter, lower-pressure air just behind something that is moving fast — a car, a , a bicycle, a plane. The vehicle punches a hole in the air; right behind it, the air does not push back as hard. Riders and drivers use that on purpose: if you sit in someone’s slipstream, you need less power to keep the same speed. Cyclists call the tactic drafting; in a race you will see a line of riders tucked in each other’s slipstream to save energy, then one of them pulls out to pass. Cars and do the same on a track. You can also use it as a verb: to slipstream someone is to ride or drive in that pocket of easier air. Though actually, people stretch the word. In everyday talk, to be in someone’s slipstream can mean you are following close behind their success, not only behind their vehicle. And in books, slipstream is also a kind of writing that sits between science fiction and ordinary literary fiction — that use was coined by the cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling in 1989. The racing sense is the one you will meet in sport and physics talk; the book sense is a specialist label. The air behind a boat is usually wake, not slipstream; slipstream is about air, not water, unless someone is being loose.
組成Compound of slip + stream: air that slips backward in a stream behind a moving body. The fiction-writing sense was coined by Bruce Sterling in 1989.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
slipstreamnoun/ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/
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The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
- Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.
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A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
- The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest.
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The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
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fictionliteraturemediaA genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
- Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.
slipstreamverb/ˈslɪp.stɹiːm/
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To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
- Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
- You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.
- A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...
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