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/ˈspeɪskræft/ · /ˈspeɪskrɑːft/
A vehicle that is built to travel in space, outside the air around the Earth. It may carry people, or fly with nobody inside it.
太空船
複數 spacecraft
核心畫面
A vehicle built to travel outside the Earth's air — sometimes with people inside, sometimes flying empty and controlled from the ground.
可以想成「為了離開地球空氣層而造的交通工具」：它可能載著太空人，也可能空無一人、由地面遙控飛行。這個字是 space…更多收起
可以想成「為了離開地球空氣層而造的交通工具」：它可能載著太空人，也可能空無一人、由地面遙控飛行。這個字是 space（太空）加上 craft 組成的——craft 在英文裡本來就有「船、飛行器」這個意思（aircraft 飛機、hovercraft 氣墊船都是同一個用法），所以 spacecraft 字面上就是「在太空跑的那種船」。注意它單複數同形：one spacecraft、three spacecraft，不加 s。原始詞典資料1 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。
spacecraftnoun/ˈspeɪsˌkɹæft/
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aerospaceastronauticsbusinessA vehicle that travels through space.
- Today, Velcro is used for everything from keeping astronauts from floating off the floor of their spacecrafts to keeping artificial hearts in place, as well as the more mundane tasks of fastening clothing.
- The object appeared after a series of routine prelanding procedures in which the crew tested the steering jets, a test that often shakes loose objects from the spacecraft.
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。