rocket

英 ['rɒkɪt] 美['rɑkɪt]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

vi. 飞驰，飞快地移动；迅速增加
n. 火箭
vt. 用火箭运载

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中文词源

rocket 烟花，火箭

来自意大利语 rocchetto,纺纱轴，纺锤，烟花，火箭，来自 Proto-Germanic*rukkon,摇晃，纺纱，来自 PIE*rug,纺纱，词源同 rock.-etto,小词后缀。比喻用法，因烟花，火箭形似纺锤体而得名。

词态变化

复数: rockets;第三人称单数: rockets;过去式: rocketed;过去分词: rocketed;现在分词: rocketing;

英文词源

rocket: rocket: English has two words rocket. The older, and now less familiar, is the name of a plant of the cabbage family whose leaves are used in salads. It was inspired by the plant’s downy stems, for it goes back ultimately to Latin ērūca, which originally meant ‘hairy caterpillar’. This may have been related to ērīcius ‘hedgehog’, from which English gets caprice and urchin.

It passed into Italian as ruca, whose diminutive form ruchetta developed a variant rochetta – whence French roquette and finally English rocket [16]. Rocket ‘projectile’ [17] is ultimately an allusion to the shape of such objects. It comes via Old French roquette from Italian rocchetto, a diminutive form of rocca ‘spool’ – hence the application to the ‘cylindrical’ rocket. Rocca itself represents a borrowing from a prehistoric Germanic *rukkon, which also lies behind English ratchet.
=> caprice, urchin; ratchet
rocket (n.1): garden plant of the cabbage family, c. 1500, from Middle French roquette (16c.), from Italian rochetta, diminutive of ruca "a kind of cabbage," from Latin eruca "colewort," perhaps so called for its downy stems and related to ericus "hedgehog," also "a beam set with spikes," from PIE *ghers- "to bristle" (see horror).
rocket (n.2): type of self-propelling projectile, 1610s, from Italian rocchetto "a rocket," literally "a bobbin," diminutive of rocca "a distaff," so called because of cylindrical shape. The Italian word probably is from a Germanic source (compare Old High German rocko "distaff," Old Norse rokkr), from Proto-Germanic *rukkon-, from PIE root *rug- "fabric, spun yarn."

Originally "fireworks rocket," meaning "device propelled by a rocket engine" first recorded 1919; rocket-ship in the modern sense first attested February 1927 ("Popular Science"); earlier as a type of naval warship firing projectiles. Rocket science in the figurative sense of "difficult, complex process or topic" is attested by 1985. Rocket scientist is from 1952.
That such a feat is considered within the range of possibility is evidenced by the activities of scientists in Europe as well as in America. Two of them, Prof. Herman Oberth and Dr. Franz Hoeff, of Vienna, are constructing a five-ton rocket ship in which they hope to reach the moon in two days. ["Popular Science," Feb. 1927]
rocket (v.): "to spring like a rocket," 1860, from rocket (n.2). Earlier "to attack with rockets" (1799). Related: Rocketed; rocketing.

双语例句

1. A Delta II rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral early this morning.: 今天一早，一枚“德尔塔”Ⅱ型火箭在卡纳维拉尔角发射升空。

2. The Ariane space-rocket project has had a shining success.: 阿里安航天火箭项目取得了辉煌的成功。

3. First a house took a direct hit and then the rocket exploded.: 先是一幢房子被直接击中，然后火箭弹就爆炸了。

4. Interviewing politicians may not be rocket science, but it does matter.: 采访政治家可能并不是什么高难度的事，但的确很重要。

5. The rocket tumbled out of control shortly after lift-off.: 发射后不久，火箭就失控坠落了。

英英释意

1. any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine

2. a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

3. erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

4. propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

5. sends a firework display high into the sky

考试真题

Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

实用场景例句

a space rocket: 太空火箭

The rocket was launched in March 1980.: 这枚火箭发射于1980年3月。

The idea took off like a rocket (= it immediately became popular) .: 这种思想立即风靡一时。

a rocket attack: 火箭攻击

rocketing prices: 飞涨的价格

Unemployment has rocketed up again.: 失业人数再次猛增。

The total has rocketed from 376 to 532.: 总数从376猛增到532。

The car rocketed out of a side street.: 汽车从一条叉路上嗖的一下开了出来。

The band rocketed to stardom with their first single.: 这支乐队的第一首单曲就使他们一举成名。

There has been a renewed rocket attack on the capital.: 首都遭受了新一轮的火箭袭击。

Fresh food is so scarce that prices have rocketed...: 新鲜食物非常匮乏，导致价格猛涨。

The nation has experienced four years of rocketing crime.: 4年来，这个国家的犯罪率急剧上升。

A train rocketed by, shaking the walls of the row houses...: 一辆火车疾驰而过，排屋的墙都摇晃起来。

Dublin has rocketed up the charts to become one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations for city breaks.: 都柏林的排名飞速攀升，成为了欧洲最受欢迎的旅游度假城市之一。

Afterward the Rocket exchanges him Magic and trades rye, hereafter he changes to Nikesidui.: 之后火箭队把他交换到魔术队并换来麦迪, 此后他又被转到尼克斯队.

The first stage of rocket is thrown away only minutes after the rocket takes off.: 火箭的第一级在火箭起飞后仅仅几秒中就被扔掉.

In 1993 a new space rocket with no wings was developed in the USA.: 1993年美国研制了一种新型的滑有机翼的太空火箭.

As the rocket gets farther into space, the earth's atmosphere is left behind.: 随着火箭越来越远地进入空间, 地球的大气就被抛在后面.

An American, William Hale, assembled a vastly improved rocket in 1846.: 一个叫威廉·黑尔的美国人, 在1846年组装了一枚经过大大改进的火箭.

Outside clouds of smoke rose in the distance as troops fired rocket launchers.: 在外面,部队点燃火箭弹发射器后,远处硝烟升腾.

The explosive mixture in a rocket consists of both a fuel and a supply of oxygen.: 火箭中的爆炸性混合物由燃料和氧气构成.

The rocket boosts the astronaut into space.: 这火箭能把宇航员送入太空.

This space rocket carries two satellites.: 这枚宇宙火箭搭载了两颗卫星.

The rocket is due to lift off at noon on Friday.: 火箭定于星期五中午发射.

I saw the launch of the rocket yesterday.: 我昨天看了火箭发射.

The rocket penetrated the enemy's tank.: 火箭击穿了敌人的坦克.

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