slipstream
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
— Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.
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A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
— The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest.
- The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
- The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
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A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
— Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.
动词 v.
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To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
— Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.
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To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
— You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.
词源 2
Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.
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