搜尋結果
slipstream
- IPA[ˈslɪpstriːm]
英式
- a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or jet engine.;the partial vacuum created in the wake of a moving vehicle, often used by other vehicles in a race to assist in overtaking.
- (especially in motor racing) follow closely behind another vehicle, travelling in its slipstream and awaiting an opportunity to overtake
noun: slipstream, plural noun: slipstreams
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or jet engine.
- ▪ the partial vacuum created in the wake of a moving vehicle, often used by other vehicles in a race to assist in overtaking.
- 2. an assisting force regarded as drawing something along behind something else when the US economy booms, the rest of the world is pulled along in the slipstream
動詞
- 1. (especially in motor racing) follow closely behind another vehicle, travelling in its slipstream and awaiting an opportunity to overtake he then slipstreamed and overtook me again she had a rocky route through the rest of adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind