flyover

名词 n.
/ˈflaɪˌəʊvə/    /ˈflaɪˌoʊvɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low-level flight, especially of military aircraft, of a ceremonial nature; a flypast (British). US
    — Look closely at the commemorative flight suit patch for Super Bowl LX and you’ll notice what appears to be an anomaly: while the military aircraft flyover on Sunday is set to include Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers and F-15C Eagle fighters alongside Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35C Lightning fighters, the patch includes silhouettes of another advanced fighter jet: the Air Force F-22 Raptor. […] “These flyovers serve as time-over-target training for our crews,” she said.
  2. A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption. Commonwealth,Ireland,Philippines,UK
    — They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.
  3. A high-level overpass built above main overpass lanes. US
  4. Middle America, noncoastal America. US,attributive,informal
    — Boom Town may not be a definitive text—save that for the historians—but it’s a significant update, one that exchanges the dusty pop-cultural clichés of a “flyover” city for the spark of a sincerely enlightening place.

词形变化

flyovers plural fly-over alternative

词汇关系

词源

Deverbal from fly over.
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