aircraft
英 ['eəkrɑːft]
美 ['ɛr'kræft]
英語の語源
- aircraft (n.)
- 1851, originally in reference to airships and balloons, from air (n.1) + craft (n.); a term from boating, as were many early aviation words. Of airplanes from 1907 and since 1930s exclusively of them. Aircraft carrier is attested from 1919 (H.M.S. Hermes, launched September 1919, was the first ship to be built from the hull up as an aircraft carrier).
例文
- 1. The onslaught of orders should keep aircraft manufactures busy for some time.
- 殺到する注文は、航空機メーカーをしばらく忙しくさせるはずだ。
- 2.Since its inception the company has produced 53 different aircraft designs.
- 同社は設立以来53種類の異なるスタイルの航空機の設計を完了している。
- 3.A light aircraft crash-landed on a putting green yesterday.
- 軽飛行機が昨日、ゴルフ場のホールエリアに緊急着陸した。
- 4.He had returned to England in an aircraft carrier no less.
- 彼はなんと空母でイングランドに帰った。
- 5.The airlines have invested enormous sums in new,quieter aircraft .
- 航空会社は騒音の少ない新型機を購入するために多額の資金を投入した。