kite

英 [kaɪt] 美 [kaɪt]

• n. 风筝；鸢
• n. 空头支票
• v. 用空头支票骗人；使上升

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]风筝

   toy consisting of a light framework covered with paper, cloth, etc. that is flown in the wind at the end of a long string

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 风筝
2. 骗子，流氓
3. <苏格兰>贪心的人，贪得无厌的人，贪婪的人
4. 【动】鸢
5. 光棍
6. 轻型飞机，风筝式飞机，飞机
7. 【海】最高的轻帆
8. 试探性行为，行动
9. 空头支票
10. 总是处于兴奋状态的吸毒者（毒品相关用语）

v. 动词

1. <口>如风筝般飘动，象风筝一样飞
2. 轻快地行动，迅速上升，上升，
3. 使迅速上升，使上涨
4. 【商】用空头支票骗钱， 使用（非法支票）骗钱
5. 涂改（支票）
6. 飞起，高飞， 翱翔
7. 腾挪，提现挪用

英英释义

Noun:

1. a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

2. a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

3. plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

4. any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals

Verb:

1. increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently;

   "He kited many checks"
   

2. get credit or money by using a bad check;

   "The businessman kited millions of dollars"
   

3. soar or fly like a kite;

   "The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains"
   

4. fly a kite;

   "Kids were kiting in the park"
   "They kited the Red Dragon model"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The children are flying kites.
   孩子们在放风筝。
2. A boy is flying a kite in the piazza.
   一个小男孩在阳台上放风筝。
3. I looked up into the sky and saw the kite become smaller and smaller.
   我遥望天空，只见风筝越来越小。
4. A kite will never be a good hawk.
   鸢永不会变成隼。
5. Yellow-billed kite soars in the sky
   黄嘴鸢横空长啸。

用作名词 (n.)

1. She got caught kite flying in Philadelphia.
   她在费城到处开空头支票时被抓住。

用作动词 (v.)

1. The bill was due before payday, so I had to kite the check.
   工资还没发，帐单就到期了，于是我只好开空头支票。
2. Meat prices kited.
   肉价飞涨。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The kites fly upwind. How beautiful the scene is!
   这些风筝迎风飞翔,多美的景色啊!

经典引文

• Detested kite! thou liest.

  出自：King Lear , Shakespeare

• Birds in the sunlight kiting behind him.

  出自： T. Pynchon

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

fly a/one's kite

试探舆论 want to know what people said

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• draw in a kite 收风筝
• fly a kite 放风筝,试探舆论
• let up a kite 放风筝
• strike kite 击中风筝

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. kite的基本意思是“风筝”,指一种用纸或布扎起来的手工艺品,可以由线来牵引乘风飞翔。
2. fly a kite除了表示“放风筝”,还可表示“试探舆论”。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的cyta，意为风筝。

近反义词

【近义词】

• rise 上升
• mount 登上
• ascend 上升
• soar 翱翔
• arise 出现
• uprise 升起
• hover 盘旋
• sail 航行
• forge 锻造
• kite 风筝
• box kite 箱形风筝
• dragon kite 龙形风筝
• bird of prey 食肉鸟
• white-tailed kite 白尾鸢
• write 写
• checks （复）制约（复数形式常用...
• securities 股票
• bad 坏的
• counterfeit 膺品
• dragon 龙
• box 盒子
• tetrahedral 有四面的
• eddy 漩涡
• bird 鸟
• small 小的
• swallow-tailed 燕尾状的
• of 关于
• hawk 鹰
• prey 牺牲者