jettison

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n. 投弃, 投弃货物 [经] 抛弃, 船货投海

发音

AU /ˈd͡ʒɛɾəsən/
AU /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsən/
UK /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsn̩/
UK /-zn̩/
US /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsn̩/
US /-zn̩/

词形变化

jettisons 复数 jettisons jettisoned jettisoning jettisons 三单 jettisoning 现在分词 jettisoned 过去式 jettisoned 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

投弃；投弃货物

动词

投弃（船舶遇难时投弃货物以为减轻负载）

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

    抛弃

    不可数
  2. 2.

    The action of jettisoning items.

    可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

    The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.

    The fuel tanks were jettisoned.

  2. 2.

    To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.

    比喻

词汇关系

动词

上位词 10

throw toss loft dispose fling discard cast out put away throw away throw out

词源

From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam.

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