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单词 stratosuit
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stratosuit
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.
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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.
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