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单词 aerial
释义
aerial
(riəl )
Word forms: aerials
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You talk about aerial attacks and aerial photographs to indicate that people or things on the ground are attacked or photographed by people in aeroplanes.
Weeks of aerial bombardment had destroyed factories and highways.
He planned to take aerial photographs of the Baru volcano.
The film begins with an aerial view of the Great Basin of Nevada.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You can use aerial to describe things that exist or happen above the ground or in the air.
The seagulls swirled in aerial combat over the barges.
3. countable noun
An aerial is a device or a piece of wire that receives television or radio signals and is usually attached to a radio, television, car, or building. [British]
...a saucer-shaped satellite television aerial.
...the radio aerials of taxis and cars.
regional note:   in AM, use antenna
Vocabulary Builder
HOUSE: EXTERIOR HOUSE: EXTERIOR roof chimney window aerial shutter gutter gate drainpipe gable front door garage driveway
Collocations:
aerial bombardment
The aerial bombardment had continued throughout the night.
Oliver Poole BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (2003)
They were short of essential supplies and were continually subject to aerial bombardment.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
Plus the punishing impact of US-led aerial bombardment.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Heavy aerial bombardment by the Americans failed to make much of a dent in the network.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
aerial cable
The lift, opened in 1997, replaces an earlier aerial cable car on a similar route that was completed in 1946.
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As a result of the war, this aerial cable car could not be completed and both pillars were demolished in the 1950s.
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In 1975 the destroyed upper section and the middle section were replaced by an aerial cable car.
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aerial combat
The aerial combat is spectacular.
Oxenhorn, Harvey Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic (1990)
What a contrast to the aerial combat in which we had been fighting for our lives just a short time before!
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The weapons are designed for aerial combat.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Inevitably in the fast-moving world of aerial combat, their noble goal was not always attainable.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
television aerial
Then he climbed on to a television aerial and disappeared in the darkness.
Times, Sunday Times
Our neighbour has put up a very substantial and visually intrusive television aerial that overhangs our side of the property significantly.
Times, Sunday Times
Initial investigations by the fire brigade suggested that the television aerial on the roof was struck first before the charge passed into the loft.
Times, Sunday Times
The lightning appeared to have hit the television aerial and also blew up all the electric sockets in the house.
Times, Sunday Times
One can also find the odd solitary starling singing in the middle of the day on a television aerial.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 天线, 从空中的 袭击等
Japanese: アンテナ, 航空機による
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