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a person who operates the controls of an aircraft, especially as a job 飛行員;(航空器)駕駛員 an airline pilot 民航飛機飛行員 a fighter/helicopter pilot 戰鬥機/直升機飛行員 The accident was caused by pilot error. 這場事故是飛行員的失誤造成的。 The pilot bailed out as the aircraft crashed into the ocean. 飛機墜入大海,飛行員跳傘了。 He has his own plane and a pilot's licence. 他有自己的飛機和飛行員執照。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- experienced
- licensed
- professional
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- fly (something)
- crash (something)
- bail out
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- error
a person with special knowledge of a difficult area of water, for example, the entrance to a harbour, whose job is to guide ships through it Topics Transport by waterc1領航員;引水員;領港員 a single television programme that is made in order to find out whether people will like it and want to watch further programmes Topics TV, radio and newsc2(電視的)試播節目 - (also pilot light)
a small flame that burns all the time, for example on a gas boiler, and lights a larger flame when the gas is turned on 引火火種;長明火
Word Originearly 16th cent. (denoting a person who steers a ship): from French pilote, from medieval Latin pilotus, an alteration of pedota, based on Greek pēdon ‘oar’, (plural) ‘rudder’.