Flight

(noun.) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; 'I took the noon flight to Chicago'.

(noun.) an instance of traveling by air; 'flying was still an exciting adventure for him'.

(noun.) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next.

(noun.) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; 'a flight of fancy'; 'flights of rhetoric'; 'flights of imagination'.

(noun.) an air force unit smaller than a squadron.

(noun.) a formation of aircraft in flight.

(noun.) a flock of flying birds.

(verb.) fly in a flock; 'flighting wild geese'.

(verb.) shoot a bird in flight.

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• Miss Volumnia with a third little scream takes flight, wishing her hosts--O Lud! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He was dined at the H?tel de Ville, given the Legion of Honor, and money was subscribed for a monument to mark the place near Calais where he commenced his flight. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up--with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse's leg. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Tarzan paused in his flight. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight, somewhat surprised me. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Bois-Guilbert's new shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare le Corbeau. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• On being informed of the old man's flight, his fury was unbounded. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• If they are interrupted in their flight she will be sure to come back to me, and I ought to be at the house to receive her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He turned past the door of the parental bedroom like a shadow, and was climbing the second flight of stairs. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The moment that retreat had changed into a flight (as it was sure from its very character to do), he darted up the steps to Margaret. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Oliver felt such fear come over him when he recognised the place, that, for the instant, he forgot the agony of his wound, and thought only of flight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• A few weeks afterwards the poor woman's soul took its flight, I confidently hope, and solemnly believe, to a place of eternal happiness and rest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I shall say you're old-fashioned, and prefer walking up the five flights because you don't like lifts. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The early flights with No. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• After many experiments they succeeded, and on December 17, 1903, the first airship made four flights at Kitty Hawk. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We imitate, says the guide in the Utopian land, also flights of birds; we have some degree of flying in the air; we have ships and boats for going under water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• At first few visitors panted up the long flights of steps to the breezy platform. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was up three flights of stairs backward, at an Italian warehouse. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• They were ready to try mechanical flights in places where the wind-conditions were less favorable than at Kitty Hawk. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They are men of remarkable balance, and it was their quality of unremitting care that made them the wonder of Europe, used above all things else to the dramatic in men’s flights through air. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• You go up nine flights of stairs before you get to the first floor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The pictures were taken during the army test flights at Fort Myer, Virginia. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A German engineer, Otto Lilienthal, made a study of the mechanics of birds’ flights, and determined to learn their secret by actual trial. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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