| 释义 |
spaceman|ˈspeɪsmən|
Also space-man.
[space n.1]
1. A journalist paid according to the extent of space occupied by his writing (cf. space n. 18 d).
1892Howells Mercy 116 He felt that as a space-man..his duty to his family required him to use every means for making copy. 1935G. Greene England made Me ii. 80 He's News... I'm a space man... I can't afford to miss a thing.
2. One who travels in space or comes from another planet.
1942Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr. 110/1 Maybe Lambert was a spaceman. Maybe he wasn't, but if he knew anything at all about spaceman's lingo he'd have to give now. 1944F. Brown in B. W. Aldiss Introducing SF (1964) 69 Earth's armada, all ten thousand ships and half-million fighting spacemen. 1956‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 81 Whither thou goest, I will go... It was all right for a tribe of nomads, but nowadays the wives of soldiers, sailors, pilots, spacemen—. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiii. 250 Amateur experts..Visitors from another world... They think they're space men. 1977P. Carter Under Goliath iv. 21, I was reading a good book all about spacemen.
Hence ˈspacemanship.
1957Economist 2 Mar. 400/1 Dr von Braun has always entertained, and shared with the public, the most ambitious ideals of spacemanship. 1966Life 7 Jan. 32 (caption) Down from adventure and spacemanship, Stafford and Schirra pop out for an eye-level look at the sea. |
