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- a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal（尤指用作烟火或信号的）火箭。
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- （亦作rocket engine 或rocket motor）an engine operating on the same principle, providing thrust as in a jet engine but without depending on the intake of air for combustion火箭发动机; （以喷气发动机作为动力的）火箭。
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- an elongated rocket-propelled missile or spacecraft火箭弹; 火箭推进式导弹; 火箭推进式航天器。
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- used, especially in similes and comparisons, to refer to a person or thing that moves very fast or to an action that is done with great force（像火箭般）快速行动者; 飞快行进的物体; 有力的行动：
she shot out of her chair like a rocket.
她像火箭般地从椅子上弹了起来。
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- in sing. Brit. informal a severe reprimand〈英, 非正式〉严厉的斥责。
(rocketed, rocketing)
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- no obj.(of an amount, price, etc.) increase very rapidly and suddenly（数量、价格等）迅速增长; 猛涨：
sales of milk in supermarkets are rocketing
超市牛奶的销售量飞速上升
as adj. rocketing rocketing prices.飞涨的价格。
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- with adverbial of direction move or progress very rapidly飞快移动; 飞速行进; 迅速上升：
he rocketed to national stardom.
他像火箭般迅速跃为国家明星。
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- with obj. and adverbial cause to move or progress very rapidly使飞速行进; 使迅速上升：
she showed the kind of form that rocketed her to the semi-finals last year.
她表现了去年使她迅速进入半决赛的那种竞技状态。
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- with obj. attack with rocket-propelled missiles用火箭攻击：
the city was rocketed and bombed from the air.
这个城市从空中遭到火箭和炸弹的袭击。
短语
rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
- rise suddenly and dramatically (and subsequently fall in a similar manner)迅速崛起, 迅速败落。
词源
early 17th cent.: from French roquette, from Italian rocchetto, diminutive of rocca 'distaff (for spinning)', with reference to its cylindrical shape.
(亦作garden rocket 或salad rocket)［mass noun］
1- an edible Mediterranean plant of the cabbage family, sometimes eaten in salads芝麻菜; 紫花南芥。参见ARUGULA.
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- Eruca vesicaria, subsp. sativa, family Cruciferae.拉丁名Eruca vesicaria, 栽培亚种, 十字花科。
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- used in names of other fast-growing plants of this family, e.g. London rocket, sweet rocket用于十字花科中其他生长快速的植物名中, 如London rocket, sweet rocket。
词源
late 15th cent.: from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca 'downy-stemmed plant'.