| 词汇 | jettison |
| 释义 | jettison verb[ T ] uk /ˈdʒet.ɪ.sən/ us /ˈdʒet̬.ə.sən/ to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed: 把…作为废物抛弃，扔掉 The station has jettisoned educational broadcasts.电台已取消了教育广播。 to decide not to use an idea or plan: 放弃（想法或计划） We've had to jettison our trip because of David's accident.因为戴维发生了意外事故我们不得不放弃度假计划。 to throw goods, fuel, or equipment from a ship or aircraft to make it lighter: （船舶、飞机等为减轻重量而）投弃（货物、燃料或装备） The captain was forced to jettison the cargo and make an emergency landing.机长被迫投弃机上的货物并紧急迫降。 Removing and getting rid of things abandonment banish be scattered to the four windsidiom bin cast someone/something aside/away/off dumping eradication eradication of something erase erasure evacuate evacuate someone from something shed shedding shoo shrug shrug something off sling toss turf You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Refusing & rejecting jettison | American Dictionaryjettison verb[ T ] us/ˈdʒet̬·ə·sən, -zən/ to throw away or get rid of something that is not wanted or needed: Some of her material will probably be jettisoned for the TV show. The bombs were jettisoned over the English Channel. jettison | Business Englishjettison verb[ T ] uk /ˈdʒetɪsən/us to get rid of something or someone that is not needed or wanted: After closing its trading operations and jettisoning its top executives, the firm began to make a profit. Examples of jettisonjettison We should scrutinize these beliefs and look for possible reasons for jettisoning them. Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position. If such is in principle beyond our grasp, justified belief gets jettisoned. When should we impose them, and when should they be jettisoned? Should everyday language about mental events be jettisoned in favor of some kind of self-free rhetoric? Like a ship which has suddenly jettisoned its ballast, the play no longer rides quite evenly in the waves. No part of mathematics was to be jettisoned or even truncated. If there are spatially extended objects that are nonphysical, must "g" be jettisoned altogether? There is good coverage of old and new themes without jettisoning the former or over-privileging the latter. Harnessing the evolutionists' methods while jettisoning their ideologies was scarcely a difficult exercise since the libertarian theory patently did not hold together. The profane can be jettisoned anew and the sacred reasserted. With faith to the fore and works jettisoned, there was little or nothing more to be said or done. Jettisoning some might be more costly in terms of the intuitive plausibility of grievance legal moralism than jettisoning others. Everything that obstructed the realization of his reforms would be jettisoned like so much fluff. In the wake of the linguistic turn, perhaps we need to consider whether the rather commonsensical equation of ' culture ' with activity should be jettisoned altogether ? See all examples of jettison These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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