Picture the moment the wheels stop touching the ground. Nothing is holding the thing up from below any more — the air is. That is the whole word: off the ground, and up there because of the air. Every use only changes what is up there and how it got there: a plane under its own power, a of dust that the wind lifted, soldiers a plane carried, a camera bolted under a wing.
From the word’s history
The supplied source records airborne from around the 1640s, formed from air plus the ending -borne. The two parts together can be read as carried by the air, which is still what the word says today.
來源記載 airborne 大約在 1640 年代出現，由 air 加上字尾 -borne 組成。兩個部分合起來可以想成「被空氣帶著」，這也正好就是這個字今天在說的事。
Wiktionary entry for airborne supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:838663358): Attested since the 1640s; air + -borne
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
airborneadj
- 1
In or carried by the air.
- Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies.
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- 2
In flight.
- There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.
- 3
Fitted to an aircraft.
- airborne radar
- 4
Transported by air in an aircraft.
- airborne troops
airbornenoun
- 1
Military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.
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