touch and go

短语

快速的行动, 一触即发的形势

词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To briefly encounter before moving on.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    To touch bottom lightly and continue without damage, as a vessel in motion.

    航海 交通
  3. 3.

    To perform a touch-and-go landing.

    航空 商务 工程
adj.
  1. 1.

    Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).

    His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.

    I could sense it was touch and go whether I could get the lay.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

perilous precarious parlous

近义相关 2

dangerous unsafe

词源

The original sense, now obsolete, seems to have been that of brief encounters. The subsequent nautical sense then gave rise first to the abstract sense (indicating a hazardous situation) and later, by physical analogy, to the aeronautical sense.

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