airlift的意思|airlift的解释-里氏词典

airlift ['ɛr`lɪft]

n. 空运, 空中补给线, 空运物资

vt. 空运

[化] 气力升降机; 空气升液器

Civilians trapped in the beleaguered city have been airlifted to safety.
被围困在城里的老百姓已空运到安全地区.
We had the capacity to expand the scale of the airlift to match any Soviet escalation.
我们有能力扩大空运的规模，同苏联的任何升级行动相匹敌。
At the same time I instructed agencies to avoid confrontational rhetoric and not to crow about the airlift.
同时我指示各机构避免使用对抗的语言，并且不要为这次空运自鸣得意。

airlift

[ noun ]

transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

<verb.contact>

lift

Food is airlifted into Bosnia

Quarnaccio and airlift wing reservists refused to discuss specific destinations or details of their trips, but some said Air Force and Army troops were aboard their planes.
They did not say how they were flown in or give other details of the airlift.
Authorizes the president to pursue other initiatives, including a possible airlift of food to Poland.
A third exercise practiced an airlift operation from the U.S. Embassy compound.
Col. Oliver North as intimately involved in the finances of the airlift, even directing Gen.
A huge U.S.-led airlift broke the 1948-49 Soviet blockade, aimed at bringing West Berlin to its knees and driving out the Western powers.
Secord and associates to fund their covert airlift of arms.
In the memo, he appears most concerned with keeping secret the airlift then ferrying arms into Nicaragua and plays down the need to go to third countries for financial help.
"I am sure that he will reinforce the earlier request of last week for sealift and airlift capability," he said.
A 20-year veteran of covert operations, Col. Dutton testified that he began managing the airlift immediately after his retirement from the military in May 1986.
The airlift cost $200 million.
Mr Thornberry said 192 shells were counted by UN observers - all but two of them fell on Bosnian government positions. Despite the failure of ceasefire agreements to take hold, the international airlift has continued.
But he emphasized that an airlift was the least preferred alternative, to be used only if all else fails, because the whales could be injured.
Use of volunteer reserve units for airlift, tanker refueling and cargo handling cost $12 million.
Most were in support roles to provide sealift and airlift of troops and supplies, as well as medical service.
There are fears that the city will start running critically short of supplies if the airlift is not resumed within a week.
The airlift was abruptly stopped two weeks ago.
About 250 airlift veterans from the United States attended Saturday's ceremonies, according to Ms. Goodwin.
After intervention by a special United Nations envoy, the government allowed U.N. personnel to return to the area where they coordinate the relief effort's trucking and airlift operations.
Washington sent his letter to the members of Congress after UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi wrote to President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev asking them to consider a joint food airlift for Angola.
UNITED NATIONS: Dispatched an emergency team and began an airlift of 37 tons in emergency supplies from U.N. warehouses.
Most people still live on meagre rations brought in by humanitarian agencies, which depend on an airlift run by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Biologists said they were considering the possibility they might have to airlift the animals to open water.
Col. Gadd, who said Secord sought to improve "the image" of the airlift supplying Nicaraguan rebels in an attempt to sell certain of the operation's assets to the CIA.
The United Nations' Aga Khan said he was trying to find out why the Ethiopians pulled out of the airlift.
It doesn't have enough airlift capacity.
The military on Friday lifted a 12-ounce limit on packages sent to troops in Saudi Arabia, saying there was now a sufficient postal system and airlift capability in place to handle a larger volume of mail.
The International Red Cross and U.N.-sponsored agencies began an airlift of food to towns in the southern Sudan on Monday.
Tommy Tomlinson, a 92-year-old former U.S. Navy captain, laid a wreath at the foot of Rhein-Main's airlift memorial, a large cement monument pointed in the direction of Berlin.
Mr. Bush's staff said they were told in August of last year that Col. North was effectively "chairman of the board" behind a private airlift that was running arms into Nicaragua and was believed to be financed partly with funds from abroad.

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