1
- a rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening喷射流：
the firm unblocks your drain with high-pressure jets.
公司用高压喷射水流疏通您的排水道。
1.1
- a nozzle or narrow opening for sending out such a stream喷嘴, 喷射口：
Agnes turned up the gas jet.
艾格尼丝转大了煤气喷嘴。
2
- an aircraft powered by one or more jet engines喷气式飞机：
a private jet
私人喷气机
as modifier a jet plane.喷气式飞机。
2.1
- a jet engine喷气发动机。
(jetted, jetting)no obj., with adverbial of direction
1
- travel by jet aircraft乘喷气式飞机旅行：
the newly-weds jetted off for a honeymoon in New York.
新婚夫妇乘喷气式飞机去纽约度蜜月。
2
- spurt out in jets喷射; 喷出：
blood jetted from his nostrils.
血从他鼻孔中喷出。
词源
late 16th cent. （as a verb meaning 'jut out'）： from French jeter 'to throw', based on Latin jactare, frequentative of jacere 'to throw'.
mass noun
1- a hard black semi-precious variety of lignite, capable of being carved and highly polished煤玉, 贝褐碳, 黑色大理石。
1.1
- a glossy black colour黑而发亮的, 乌黑的：
as modifier the gloss of her jet hair她乌黑秀发的光泽
jet black.
乌黑。
词源
Middle English: from Old French jaiet, from Latin Gagates, from Greek gagatēs 'from Gagai', a town in Asia Minor.