touch and go
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To briefly encounter before moving on.
— As the text doth rise, I will touch and go a little in euery place, untill I come unto too much.
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To touch bottom lightly and continue without damage, as a vessel in motion.
— Whilst they were disputing the vessel touched the ground, but soon got off again. "Ay," says the captain, "he is a good pilot that can touch and go."
- To perform a touch-and-go landing.
形容词 adj.
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Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
— Madam, I’m gone; no wonder, for you know, Lovers' encounters are but touch and go.
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Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
— His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.
词形变化
词源
词源 1
The original sense, now obsolete, seems to have been that of brief encounters. The subsequent nautical sense then gave rise first to the abstract sense (indicating a hazardous situation) and later, by physical analogy, to the aeronautical sense.
词源 2
The original sense, now obsolete, seems to have been that of brief encounters. The subsequent nautical sense then gave rise first to the abstract sense (indicating a hazardous situation) and later, by physical analogy, to the aeronautical sense.
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