单词 | shuttle |
释义 | shut·tle I. 1. a. b. c. (1) (2) 2. 3. 4. dialect chiefly Britain 5. a. < in addition to planes that fly direct to Bermuda and return in a shuttle, some flights continue to England — Skyways > < kept up a round-the-clock shuttle delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds — Time > b. < carted paratroopers across the short shuttle from Denmark to Norway — Richard Thruelsen & Elliott Arnold > c. < took the shuttle across the city > 6. II. chiefly dialect III. transitive verb 1. < was shuttled from one unsympathetic relative to another — Ruth & Edward Brecher > < reserves to be shuttled between branches to meet varying … needs — Investor's Reader > 2. < crews were to be shuttled from their ships to the gun-carrying ships before landing — Coast Artillery Journal > < dual drive tractors shuttle eight 35-foot insulated trailers between the eastern and western terminals — Motor Transportation in the West > < keeps shuttling substitutes in and out with instructions to run until they tire, then signal for relief — Time > intransitive verb 1. < continued feverishly to shuttle between sidewalk and stairs — H.J.Kaplan > < tangled with red tape, they have shuttled from bureau to bureau — Newsweek > < the book shuttles from one locale to another — Time > 2. < every type of landing craft shuttling continuously between the tumultuous beaches and the scores of cargo vessels — E.L.Jones > < bombed it and shuttled to Africa — Tex McCrary & D.E.Scherman > < shuttled over to Milwaukee — L.E.Arndt > < has shuttled back and forth across the years — Pamela Taylor > IV. |
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