| 单词 | flying saucer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflying saucer flying saucer n. the fanciful name given to various unidentified disc- or saucer-shaped objects reported as appearing in the sky. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > flying saucer or UFO flying saucer1947 saucer1947 unidentified (flying) object1950 UFO1953 1947 Times 8 July 4/4 During the past fortnight reports that dish-like objects, nicknamed ‘flying saucers’, have been seen travelling through the air at great speed..have come from the United States and Canada. 1948 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 7 199 I haven't examined the details carefully, but the ‘flying saucers’ bear all the hall-marks of mass-suggestion. 1953 D. Leslie & G. Adamski Flying Saucers have Landed i. i. 13 Ever since the cliché ‘flying saucer’ was coined, the greatest and most exciting mystery of our age has been automatically reduced to the level of a music hall joke. 1965 New Society 9 Sept. 14/2 When Kenneth Arnold saw something from his airplane near Mount Rainier in June 1947, he gave them the happy name of flying saucers. < as lemmas |
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