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- a hand-held catapult弹弓。
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- a shot from a hand-held catapult弹弓射弹。
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- often as modifier the effect of the gravitational pull of a celestial body in accelerating and changing the course of another body or a spacecraft.弹射飞行。
(-shotting; past and past participle -shot 或-shotted)
- forcefully accelerate or cause to accelerate through use of gravity（利用引力）加速, 使加速超前：
no obj. the car would hit the first dip, then slingshot off the second rise汽车总是到达第一个坡下, 然后加速冲越第二道坡
with obj. Jupiter's gravity slingshots the fragments toward Earth.木星的重力使碎片加速飞向地球。