英语词汇“to level off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

6. to level off (or out):

a. to bring an aircraft into horizontal flight (intransitive and transitive); (of an aircraft) to assume horizontal flight, to flatten out.

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1928 Literary Digest 12 May 74/2 A ‘pancake landing’ occurs when the ship is leveled off several feet above the ground.

1928 New Republic 15 Aug. 331/2 In a straight dive down, coming out of a ‘stall’..which stopped only when I levelled off and began to fly straight.

1928 New Republic 15 Aug. 331/2 When it gets into the diving position, it responds to all the controls and can be gradually levelled out.

1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders viii. 135 Climbing in the still blue atmosphere to five thousand feet, the ten-passenger Sikorsky amphibian levelled off above Honolulu.

1952 A. Y. Bramble Air-plane Flight xviii. 306 Some air-planes take a considerable time to reach cruising air speed, with cruising power setting, after levelling off.

1963 Times 19 Apr. 11/6 On the Trident and VC 10 it is proposed to use the equipment in stages, the first being autoflare, in which the aircraft is brought down to the height at which it levels off for landing, leaving the pilot to put the aircraft down.

b. figurative. To cease increasing or decreasing.

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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > be unchanging [verb (intransitive)] > cease to change

peak1940

plateau1951

to level off (or out)1958

1958 Listener 10 July 40/1 If the recent signs of improvement in American business are not followed up, if production levels off again and unemployment rises..then [etc.].

1968 Guardian 24 Apr. 11/5 The American war effort can begin to level off and eventually to be reduced.

1968 Times 16 Dec. 7/1 Yields have been tending to level off, or even to fall.

1972 Guardian 21 July 21/5 There are a few signs..that the property market is beginning to level off and prices are steadying somewhat.

单词	to level off
释义	> as lemmas to level off (or out) 6. to level off (or out): a. to bring an aircraft into horizontal flight (intransitive and transitive); (of an aircraft) to assume horizontal flight, to flatten out. ΚΠ 1928 Literary Digest 12 May 74/2 A ‘pancake landing’ occurs when the ship is leveled off several feet above the ground. 1928 New Republic 15 Aug. 331/2 In a straight dive down, coming out of a ‘stall’..which stopped only when I levelled off and began to fly straight. 1928 New Republic 15 Aug. 331/2 When it gets into the diving position, it responds to all the controls and can be gradually levelled out. 1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders viii. 135 Climbing in the still blue atmosphere to five thousand feet, the ten-passenger Sikorsky amphibian levelled off above Honolulu. 1952 A. Y. Bramble Air-plane Flight xviii. 306 Some air-planes take a considerable time to reach cruising air speed, with cruising power setting, after levelling off. 1963 Times 19 Apr. 11/6 On the Trident and VC 10 it is proposed to use the equipment in stages, the first being autoflare, in which the aircraft is brought down to the height at which it levels off for landing, leaving the pilot to put the aircraft down. b. figurative. To cease increasing or decreasing. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > be unchanging [verb (intransitive)] > cease to change peak1940 plateau1951 to level off (or out)1958 1958 Listener 10 July 40/1 If the recent signs of improvement in American business are not followed up, if production levels off again and unemployment rises..then [etc.]. 1968 Guardian 24 Apr. 11/5 The American war effort can begin to level off and eventually to be reduced. 1968 Times 16 Dec. 7/1 Yields have been tending to level off, or even to fall. 1972 Guardian 21 July 21/5 There are a few signs..that the property market is beginning to level off and prices are steadying somewhat. extracted from levelv.¹ < as lemmas
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