The pilot jibbed at the idea of a straight bomb run, for it would mean flying through heavy flak. 领航员不赞成采用笔直的轰炸航线,因为这样做就得飞过密集的高射炮火。
He took a lot of flak for his stand against abortion. 他因坚持反对堕胎而饱受责难。
The pilot jibbed at the idea of a straight bomb run, for it would mean flying through heavy flak. 领航员不赞成采用笔直的轰炸航线,因为这样做就得飞过密集的高射炮火。
flak
[ noun ]
a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer
<noun.person>
intense adverse criticism
<noun.communication> Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party the government has come under attack don't give me any flak
artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
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"The history of it is that men have exercised traditional control over the activities of women, and I'm not going to ignore that, no matter how much flak I get from women's lib," U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk said Tuesday.
Mr. Tsongas has already drawn some flak from environmentalists for serving on the board of Boston Edison, a New England utility.
The publication will include a diaper ad that has drawn flak for promoting P&G's Pampers and Luvs brands as easily compostable.
Helicopters serving one of the few Midwest hospitals to perform heart transplants on children are drawing flak from neighbors who say the aircraft are overused and pose a potential safety hazard.
"The rest of the stuff is just flak to get through to get to our target."
Turf wars with principals and other administrators, lack of training and planning, a shortage of money and even flak from fellow teachers are a few of the pitfalls reformers have been encountering.
Bart Simpson, the goggle-eyed cartoon kid with a corrugated hairdo, is catching flak from educators who say his smart-alecky attitude on "The Simpsons" gives children the wrong message.
One "other" that's been catching a lot of flak is Heinz's ketchup bottle, which contains 6% ethyl vinyl alcohol to prevent oxygen permeation.
Dukakis running mate Lloyd Bentsen ran into flak Thursday when the World War II veteran pilot told a veterans' group that Dukakis and the Democrats could be trusted with the nation's defense.
The Concorde braved seven years of flak from environmentalists and others before it could begin flying the lucrative trans-Atlantic route.
The woman barricaded herself inside and rifle-toting SWAT team members in flak jackets with black daubs below their eyes surrounded the area in this affluent north Chicago suburb.
Nucla Mayor John Vanderpool, who wore a flak jacket all weekend after receiving death threats, said local merchants reported "everything has at least tripled" because of the prairie dog shoot.
At the top we're getting this flak, but below I'm not.
Last week he was dodging the flak from his over-enthusiastic promotion of the D-day celebrations.
The result is that it has, if anything, become even more of a target for public flak and raids on its budget by Congress.
"Where all this flak is coming from I heard about on the news _ it's totally absurd," he told reporters. "It's much ado about nothing." Reagan's endorsement was just three sentences in a speech that he delivered to a party dinner in Washington.
AIR FORCE PLANS to spend $66 billion for advanced fighter jets attract flak.
Once, the local paper's aging movie editor warned me to stay away from a certain flak, who, he said, was too oily for someone of my inexperience.
The music appeared to relieve the tedium for some of the soldiers, who have had to stand in the hot sun for hours wearing heavy flak jackets.
That's in line with what the United States wants, but the administration is not eager for the flak that accompanies the tough cop role.
As in "Sophie's Choice," "Out of Africa" and other films, Streep affected an accent. "I get a lot of flak for my accents," she admitted in a recent magazine interview.
"It's hard to be the officer in charge and not to expect some of the flak to come in your direction," he says.
On Saturday, an Arab woman was shot dead in Jerusalem as she tried to stab a police officer, who was unharmed because he wore a flak jacket.