tailspin

FREQ #49519

n. 旋尾降落

词形变化

tailspins 复数 tailspins tailspinned tailspinning tailspins 三单 tailspun tailspinning 现在分词 tailspun 过去式 tailspun 过去分词 tailspinned 过去式 tailspinned 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.

    航空 商务 工程

    The loss of the third engine threw the plane into a tailspin.

  2. 2.

    A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.

    比喻

    Just hours after leaving the institution, she suffered another tailspin.

  3. 3.

    Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

    比喻

    The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.

    St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast […] . Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.

v.
  1. 1.

    Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.

  2. 2.

    To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.

    比喻

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

spin

上位词 4

agitation acrobatics aerobatics stunting

词源

From tail + spin.

来源：wiktionary