sortie

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  • Noun:
    a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
    (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)

单词词源

sortie (n.)
"attack of the besieged upon the besiegers," 1778, from French sortie (16c.), literally "a going out," noun use of fem. past participle of sortir "go out," from Vulgar Latin *surctire, from Latin surrectus, past participle of surgere "rise up" (see surge (n.)).

双语例句

1. Withdraw and realign for another sortie !
2. With each sortie , the team 's spirits rose .
3. Sortie poor old loony repeating the same bit of nonsense .
4. I went on a shopping sortie with my mother .
5. The overwork that increases temporarily among them , charter flight 121 sortie .

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