Balloon

(noun.) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air.

(noun.) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck.

(verb.) become inflated; 'The sails ballooned'.

(verb.) ride in a hot-air balloon; 'He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China'.

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• The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His robe filled with air and stood out all around him like a balloon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A cable holds the balloon captive. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It lay in the level plain right under our feet--all spread abroad like a picture--and we looked down upon it as we might have looked from a balloon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The wind tended to carry the aeroplane to the east, but Orville Wright was able to hold it on a fairly even course, and to reach the balloon at Shuter’s Hill that marked the turning point. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It's like puttin' gas in a balloon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• At other times, free balloons are liberated, carrying sets of automatic registering instruments. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• An air space of two feet is left between the cover and the balloons. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Germany meantime was intensely interested in Count Zeppelin’s dirigible balloons, which, although as long as a battle-ship, had flown with great success. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Two captive balloons had been floated to show the course and also to give an indication of the proper altitude to maintain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Thinking the English slow to take up the interest in balloons, he wrote that we should not suffer pride to prevent our p rogress in science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Wireless messages have been successfully sent from aeroplanes, balloons and submarine vessels, and the naval vessels of all nations are kept in easy communication by this method. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In communicating between points on land, poles of great height can be used, or captive balloons. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Perhaps, translated to another sphere, Thy spirit--like thy light, refined and clear-- Ballooned with purest hydrogen, shall rise, And add a PATENT PLANET to the skies. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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