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词汇 high-flying
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Definition of high-flying in English:

high-flying

adjective
  • 1Flying at a high altitude.

    the remotely piloted, high-flying aircraft
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In making a high-flying kite, it is better to spend a little extra effort on neatness and on cutting down weight than on decorations.
    • In the absence of the high-flying wire-assisted stunts of his later pictures, he looks pitifully immature, even mortal.
    • One of my aunts used to believe that the trails left behind by high-flying planes must have an effect on the weather.
    • High-flying aircraft sample ambient air to monitor ozone levels in the troposphere.
    • This practical formula offers some guidance when choosing a load for the high-flying birds of autumn.
    • One high-flying plane could be seen dropping flares before the detonations.
    • Some photographs, taken by high-flying spy planes, showed troops engaged in setting up nuclear-capable missile sites.
    • Conventional radar can "see" a high-flying plane 300 km away but at low altitude the range is much less.
    • This is the second international incident involving the high-flying spy plane in less than a week.
    • From the cockpit of one of the allied air force's high-flying secret spy planes, the country stretches out like a postage stamp on a manilla envelope, its mountain ranges reduced to wrinkles.
    1. 1.1 Very successful, especially academically or in business.
      a high-flying, stressed-out Los Angeles tax attorney
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Susan could have picked herself any high-flying job in the film bureaucracy that she chose; she's an enormously gifted person.
      • Compensation from salaries and stock options can be astronomical, and media attention can boost the profiles of high-flying CEOs into the stratosphere of rock stars.
      • The former high-flying conglomerate had spent most of the 1990s self-destructing.
      • Victoria was once a high-flying lawyer, but she dropped out and tuned into herself.
      • Leah is a high-flying businesswoman.
      • On the eve of her wedding journey, she has a swanky supper with her father, a bank manager ill at ease with his daughter's high-flying tastes.
      • A struggling former alcoholic and high-flying lawyer get into an auto collision.
      • The government decided that since many of the original high-flying stocks crashed to earth, financial fraud must have been behind them.
      • By the time the '80s rolls around, the club has become a meeting place for women and high-flying businessmen.
      • She is a beautiful, high-flying corporate lawyer.
      • The recent economic recession has inflicted pain on the once high-flying technology industry.
      • It will eventually be found out that he's not really a screenwriter represented by a high-flying agent.

Definition of high-flying in US English:

high-flying

adjective
  • 1Flying at a high altitude.

    high-flying aircraft
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the absence of the high-flying wire-assisted stunts of his later pictures, he looks pitifully immature, even mortal.
    • This practical formula offers some guidance when choosing a load for the high-flying birds of autumn.
    • In making a high-flying kite, it is better to spend a little extra effort on neatness and on cutting down weight than on decorations.
    • Some photographs, taken by high-flying spy planes, showed troops engaged in setting up nuclear-capable missile sites.
    • From the cockpit of one of the allied air force's high-flying secret spy planes, the country stretches out like a postage stamp on a manilla envelope, its mountain ranges reduced to wrinkles.
    • High-flying aircraft sample ambient air to monitor ozone levels in the troposphere.
    • This is the second international incident involving the high-flying spy plane in less than a week.
    • Conventional radar can "see" a high-flying plane 300 km away but at low altitude the range is much less.
    • One of my aunts used to believe that the trails left behind by high-flying planes must have an effect on the weather.
    • One high-flying plane could be seen dropping flares before the detonations.
    1. 1.1 Very successful, especially academically or in business.
      a high-flying, stressed-out Los Angeles tax attorney
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The recent economic recession has inflicted pain on the once high-flying technology industry.
      • A struggling former alcoholic and high-flying lawyer get into an auto collision.
      • On the eve of her wedding journey, she has a swanky supper with her father, a bank manager ill at ease with his daughter's high-flying tastes.
      • Susan could have picked herself any high-flying job in the film bureaucracy that she chose; she's an enormously gifted person.
      • Leah is a high-flying businesswoman.
      • It will eventually be found out that he's not really a screenwriter represented by a high-flying agent.
      • The government decided that since many of the original high-flying stocks crashed to earth, financial fraud must have been behind them.
      • The former high-flying conglomerate had spent most of the 1990s self-destructing.
      • By the time the '80s rolls around, the club has become a meeting place for women and high-flying businessmen.
      • Victoria was once a high-flying lawyer, but she dropped out and tuned into herself.
      • She is a beautiful, high-flying corporate lawyer.
      • Compensation from salaries and stock options can be astronomical, and media attention can boost the profiles of high-flying CEOs into the stratosphere of rock stars.
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