🇬🇧🇨🇳 aerospace - 航天 : English Lesson

Meaning of "aerospace" ("航天"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Aerospace is the field where people design, build, and use machines that fly in the sky or in outer space. It includes airplanes that zoom through the air and rockets or spacecraft that blast off into space. People who work in aerospace figure out how to make these flying machines safe, fast, and powerful, so we can travel, explore other planets, and even send satellites and robots far away from Earth.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

We started an aerospace club and our first rule was: no launching little brothers without parental permission.

The cookies joined my aerospace experiment by disappearing into my mouth at escape velocity.

The pizza slice clearly failed aerospace engineering when all the toppings slid off during takeoff from the plate.

Grandpa said he did aerospace once, but it turned out he had just thrown his hat so high it landed in a tree.

Real aerospace engineers design aircraft and spacecraft that can fly through the sky and into outer space—some rockets go over 28,000 kilometers per hour, which is way faster than you running to catch the ice cream truck.

At dawn an old aerospace engineer walks into the aerospace hangar, clutching a toy plane. The aerospace team gathers: they test a model in the wind tunnel, check engines, and laugh. The aerospace engineer carefully adjusts the tiny nose. The aerospace model lifts in a small launch, spirals like a bird, and the old man cries, smiling.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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