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词汇 touch-and-go
释义 touch-and-go
adjective
 informaluk /ˌtʌtʃ.ənˈɡəʊ/ us /ˌtʌtʃ.ənˈɡoʊ/
C2
If a situation is touch-and-go, it is uncertain: (形势)不确定的
The doctor says that it's touch-and-go whether Mary will be okay.医生说玛丽能否挺过去还很难说。
Synonyms
parlousformal
precarious
Compare
perilousformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Uncertainty
amorphous
be neither fish nor fowlidiom
blurringly
blurry
circumstantial
indeterminacy
indeterminate
indeterminately
insecurely
insecurity
murky
shakily
shakiness
shallowly
slippery
spec
wavery
wifty
wishy-washy
you never knowidiom

touch-and-go | American Dictionary


touch-and-go
adjective
us/ˈtʌtʃ·ənˈɡoʊ/
having an uncertain, and possibly bad result:
At one point, the operation was touch-and-go.

Examples of touch-and-go


touch-and-go
It was not until his second season that he reached his intended area of operations, and even then it was touch-and-go.
They know perfectly well that it was touch-and-go whether the unemployed were to receive anything at all.
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That man's life was touch-and-go for some weeks.
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It was touch-and-go this time, and if the situation is mishandled we shall be in a muddle over the most vital food crop that the country can produce.
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It was touch-and-go who would win.
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It was really touch-and-go at one point whether he'd survive or not because he was totally depleted.
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It was used for emergency and for touch-and-go landings as part of the pilot training school.
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Each aircraft makes multiple touch-and-go landings during these training events.
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The long runway makes the facility well-suited for touch-and-go landing practice maneuvers.
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It was used to help train medium bomber and transport pilots, who used it for emergencies on it or practiced touch-and-go landings.
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There was no public access to the airfield by land and it served as a remote area for touch-and-go training.
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The pilot then turns on the last leg, the final approach at which time clearance to land or for a touch-and-go must be received.
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He was performing touch-and-go landings, and on one touchdown the fuselage buckled.
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It was primarily used for touch-and-go flying.
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The base was closed at the end of 1969, although the military still intermittently uses the airport for training purposes, such as touch-and-go landings of tankers and cargo aircraft.
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