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- a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft飞行员, 驾驶员, 机师。
1.1
- a person with expert local knowledge qualified to take charge of a ship entering or leaving a harbour; a steersman引航员, 领航员, 引水员; 舵手, 舵工。
1.2
- a navigational handbook for use at sea航海手册。
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- informal a jockey〈非正式〉职业骑师。
1.4
- archaic a guide or leader〈古〉向导; 领导。
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- often as modifier Telecommunications an unmodulated reference signal transmitted with another signal for the purposes of control or synchronization【电信】控制引导信号; 同步引导信号。
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- a television programme made to test audience reaction with a view to the production of a series（电视）试播节目。
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- another term for COWCATCHER.
attrib.
- done as an experiment or test before introducing something more widely试验性的; 试点性的; 小规模的：
a pilot scheme for training workers.
培训工人的试验性计划。
(piloted, piloting)with obj.
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- act as a pilot of (an aircraft or ship)驾驶（飞机）; 为…引航, 为…领航; 为…操舵。
1.1
- with obj. and adverbial of direction guide; steer带领, 指引, 领导, 使顺利通过：
the task of piloting the economy out of recession.
使经济走出萧条的任务。
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- test (a scheme, project, etc.) before introducing it more widely（推广前）对…做试点。
派生词
pilotage
nounpilotless
adjective词源
early 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'.