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crash landing

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Air
ˌcrash ˈlanding, crash-landing noun [countable]  TTAan occasion when a pilot has to bring a plane down to the ground in a sudden and dangerous way because the plane has a problem 〔飞机〕摔机着陆,紧急迫降 He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert. 他被迫在沙漠中紧急降落。crash-land verb [intransitive, transitive]
Examples from the Corpus
crash landingHe says that wasn't bad for a crash landing.Read in studio A glider pilot has suffered a broken leg in a crash landing at an R-A-F base.An unnecessary signal: the radios had been dead since the crash landing.
ˌcrash ˈlanding nounChineseSyllable
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crash landing
ˌcrash ˈlanding , crash-landing noun [countable]
an occasion when a pilot has to bring a plane down to the ground in a sudden and dangerous way because the plane has a problem:
    He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert.
—crash-land verb [intransitive and transitive]


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