| 单词 | stratonaut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstratonaut b. Forming various (often ephemeral) terms with the sense ‘travelling in, suitable for travel in, or exploration of, the stratosphere’, as in stratonaut, stratosuit, etc. ΚΠ 1934 Amer. Speech 9 236/2 According to C. E. Mason, the New York Times coined the word stratonaut to describe venturers in the stratosphere. 1937 C. G. Philp Conquest of Stratosphere 6 Seventy-four years ago..those gallant pioneers, Glaisher and Coxwell,..claimed to have reached a height of 7 miles, into the lower stratosphere..without a single essential of the modern stratonaut, for they had no oxygen apparatus. 1949 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 8 40 Doubtless considerable improvements have been effected in stratosuits since the Haldane-Davis original. 1995 P. David Captain's Daughter ii. x. 96 A loud thunk and a shudder as the accelerating stratopod collided broadsided with the shuttle. 2014 M. von Ehrenfried Stratonauts iv. 21 The stratonaut of today wears about a $500,000 suit of armor against the world. < as lemmas |
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