喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈspeɪskræft/ · /ˈspeɪskrɑːft/太空船

    A vehicle that is built to travel in space, outside the air around the Earth. It may carry people, or fly with nobody inside it.

    示範例句 · Example

    Engineers will launch the spacecraft early on Friday morning.

    逐字工程師們將在星期五一大早發射這艘太空船。

    spacecraft 指的是「能在太空裡飛行的交通工具」——重點在那台機器本身，不是在「上太空」這件事。裡面有沒有人都算，載太空人的是 spacecraft，只裝相機、飛去拍火星的也是 spacecraft。這個字可以想成從 craft 長出來的：craft 是很老的一個字，意思是「載你跑的工具」，英文再用「跑在哪裡」去分家族——air 是 aircraft（飛機）、water 是 watercraft（船）、space 就是 spacecraft。也因為是 -craft 家族，複數不加 s：one spacecraft、three spacecraft。

    常見搭配

    • launch a spacecraft

      發射太空船

      to send a spacecraft up into space

      The team launched the spacecraft from an island near the sea.

    • an unmanned spacecraft

      無人太空船

      a spacecraft that flies with nobody inside it

      An unmanned spacecraft took the first close photos of the moon's far side.

    • aboard the spacecraft

      在太空船上

      inside the spacecraft, travelling in it

      Everyone aboard the spacecraft slept in small beds fixed to the wall.

    • the spacecraft orbits something

      太空船繞著⋯⋯運行

      the spacecraft goes around a planet or moon in a circle

      The spacecraft orbits the Earth once every ninety minutes.

    意思相近

    spaceshipspace capsulespace vehicle

    用法接近

    spaceshipspace shuttlespace probespace stationsatelliterocketaircraftorbiter

core核心畫面

A vehicle built to travel outside the Earth's air — sometimes with people inside, sometimes flying empty and controlled from the ground.

可以想成「為了離開地球空氣層而造的交通工具」：它可能載著太空人，也可能空無一人、由地面遙控飛行。這個字是 space（太空）加上 craft 組成的——craft 在英文裡本來就有「船、飛行器」這個意思（aircraft 飛機、hovercraft 氣墊船都是同一個用法），所以 spacecraft 字面上就是「在太空跑的那種船」。注意它單複數同形：one spacecraft、three spacecraft，不加 s。

複數 spacecraft

意思相近

spaceshipspace capsulespace vehicle

用法接近

spaceshipspace shuttlespace probespace stationsatelliterocketaircraftorbiter

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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。

spacecraftnoun/ˈspeɪsˌkɹæft/

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    aerospaceastronauticsbusinessA vehicle that travels through space.

    • Today, Velcro is used for everything from keeping astronauts from floating off the floor of their spacecrafts to keeping artificial hearts in place, as well as the more mundane tasks of fastening clothing.
    • The object appeared after a series of routine prelanding procedures in which the crew tested the steering jets, a test that often shakes loose objects from the spacecraft.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。