blimp: [20] The original blimp was a sort of small non-rigid military airship used in World War I. Its name is said to have come from its official designation as ‘type B (limp)’ (as opposed to ‘type A (rigid)’). Its rotund flaccidity suggested it in 1934 to the cartoonist David Low (1891– 1963) as a name for a character he had invented, a fat pompous ex-army officer (in full, Colonel Blimp) who was always cholerically airing reactionary views. The British public evidently recognized the character as an all too common type, and his name became a generic one, to the extent of inspiring spin-offs such as blimpish.
blimp (n.)
1916, of obscure origin, many claimants. "One of the weird coinages of the airmen" [Weekley]. Common theory is that it is from designers' prototype nickname Type B-limp, in the sense of "without internal framework," as opposed to Type A-rigid; thus see limp (adj.).
例文
1. The nonrigid helium - filled Blimp was principally developed by Alberto Santos - Dumont ( 1873 - 1932 ) .
ヘリウムガスを軟式に充填した宇宙船は主にサントス?デュモンテによって発展?改良された。＜／
2.The gray oval is a blimp .
灰色の楕円形は小型宇宙船である。
3.Scientists in the blimp did not see anything.
小型飛行船の科学者は何も見ていない。
4.Have a blimp ！See you next summer.
幸運を祈ります！また来年の夏に..
5.A：Man，look at that blimp ！His foreams are almost twice the size of my thighs.