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单词 jettison
释义
jettison
verb[T]
uk
/ˈdʒet.ɪ.sən/us
/ˈdʒet̬.ə.sən/
to getridof something or someone that is notwantedorneeded:
把…作为废物抛弃，扔掉
Thestationhas jettisonededucationalbroadcasts.电台已取消了教育广播。
todecidenot to use anideaorplan:
放弃（想法或计划）
We've had to jettisonourtripbecause of David'saccident.因为戴维发生了意外事故我们不得不放弃度假计划。
tothrowgoods,fuel, orequipmentfrom ashiporaircraftto make itlighter:
（船舶、飞机等为减轻重量而）投弃（货物、燃料或装备）
Thecaptainwasforcedto jettison thecargoand make anemergencylanding.机长被迫投弃机上的货物并紧急迫降。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Removing and getting rid of things
  • abandonment
  • banish
  • be scattered to the four windsidiom
  • bin
  • castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
  • dumping
  • eradication
  • erase
  • erasure
  • evacuate
  • evacuation
  • exorcism
  • fling
  • scrape
  • shedding
  • shoo
  • shrug
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • shuck
  • sling
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(Definition ofjettisonfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

jettison| American Dictionary

jettison
verb[T]
us
/ˈdʒet̬·ə·sən,-zən/
tothrowaway or getridof something that is notwantedorneeded:
Some of hermaterialwillprobablybe jettisoned for the TV show.
Thebombswere jettisoned over theEnglishChannel.
(Definition ofjettisonfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

jettison| Business English

jettison
verb[T]
uk
/ˈdʒetɪsən/us
to getridof something or someone that is notneededorwanted:
Afterclosingitstradingoperationsand jettisoningitstopexecutives, thefirmbeganto make aprofit.
(Definition ofjettisonfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjettison

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We should scrutinize these beliefs and look for possible reasons for jettisoning them.
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Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position.
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If such is in principle beyond our grasp, justified belief gets jettisoned.
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When should we impose them, and when should they be jettisoned?
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Should everyday language about mental events be jettisoned in favor of some kind of self-free rhetoric?
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Like a ship which has suddenly jettisoned its ballast, the play no longer rides quite evenly in the waves.
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No part of mathematics was to be jettisoned or even truncated.
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If there are spatially extended objects that are nonphysical, must "g" be jettisoned altogether?
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There is good coverage of old and new themes without jettisoning the former or over-privileging the latter.
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Harnessing the evolutionists' methods while jettisoning their ideologies was scarcely a difficult exercise since the libertarian theory patently did not hold together.
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The profane can be jettisoned anew and the sacred reasserted.
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With faith to the fore and works jettisoned, there was little or nothing more to be said or done.
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Jettisoning some might be more costly in terms of the intuitive plausibility of grievance legal moralism than jettisoning others.
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Everything that obstructed the realization of his reforms would be jettisoned like so much fluff.
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In the wake of the linguistic turn, perhaps we need to consider whether the rather commonsensical equation of ' culture ' with activity should be jettisoned altogether ?
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