airlift

UK:  ['eə(r).lɪft]

US:  ['er.lɪft]

第三人称单数：airlifts  现在分词：airlifting  过去式：airlifted  

n.

1.空运;空中补给线;空气升液器

2.空气提升器

v.

1.空运

1 . the president truman decided to mobilize all the possible american cargo planes to airlift supplies into west Berlin .
集合所有可能的美国飞机空运所须到西柏林。

2 . Air Force One is maintained and operated by the Presidential Airlift Group, part of the White House Military Office.
空军一号由总统空运集团维护和运营，它隶属于白宫军事办公室。

3 . The statement, with its echoes of the 1948 Berlin airlift, upped tensions between the two former Cold War adversaries.
这份声明的措辞让人想起了1948年时的柏林空援，进一步加剧了这两个曾经是冷战时期对手的紧张关系。

4 . We have called for an airlift and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.
我们已经准备将他空运送往西雅图的烧伤部。

5 . "For these missions, special operations forces, forced entry and airlift capabilities would be at a premium, " Dobbins said.
Dobbins说：“为了执行这些任务，特种作战部队、强有力的干预能力以及强大的空运能力是不可缺少的。”