eggbeater
eggbeater — 名詞
1. a small kitchen tool that you turn by hand to mix eggs or beat air into cream un
打蛋器
用手轉動來攪打蛋液或鮮奶油的廚房工具
a small kitchen tool that you turn by hand to mix eggs or beat air into cream until it becomes thick
Sahil cracked four eggs into a bowl and reached for the metal eggbeater.
Sahil 把四顆蛋打進碗裡，伸手去拿那支金屬打蛋器。
tool used for mixing eggs by hand
The old eggbeater squeaked loudly every time Ada turned its little handle.
每次 Ada 轉動那支舊打蛋器的小把手，它都會大聲嘎吱作響。
hand-turned tool with a handle
Grandma whipped the cream with an eggbeater instead of buying an electric mixer.
奶奶用打蛋器把鮮奶油打發，而不是去買一台電動攪拌機。
Two children took turns spinning the eggbeater to froth the warm milk.
兩個小孩輪流轉動打蛋器，把溫牛奶打出泡沫。
A rusty eggbeater hung on the kitchen wall beside the wooden spoons.
一支生鏽的打蛋器掛在廚房牆上，就在木湯匙旁邊。
- whisk
a wire tool you swing by hand; an eggbeater has gears and blades you crank
- hand mixer
usually electric, where an eggbeater works only by turning a handle
用法筆記
Refers to the simple hand-cranked version with rotating blades; a powered version is usually called an electric mixer or hand mixer instead.
2. an informal word for a helicopter, named because its spinning top blades look li
直升機
直升機的俗稱，因頂部旋轉的葉片像打蛋器
an informal word for a helicopter, named because its spinning top blades look like the turning blades of a kitchen beater
The soldiers cheered when the rescue eggbeater finally appeared above the ridge.
當救援直升機終於出現在山脊上空時，士兵們都歡呼了起來。
informal word for a helicopter
Cyrus pointed at the sky and shouted that an eggbeater was circling the harbor.
Cyrus 指著天空大喊，有一架直升機正在港口上方盤旋。
slang for an aircraft with rotor blades
Pilots at the small airfield jokingly called their noisy old helicopter the eggbeater.
小機場的飛行員開玩笑地把他們那架吵鬧的老直升機叫做「打蛋器」。
A yellow eggbeater landed on the hospital roof to drop off an injured climber.
一架黃色直升機降落在醫院屋頂，送下一名受傷的登山客。
- helicopter
the neutral, standard term; eggbeater is the joking informal version
- chopper
another informal word for a helicopter, more common in everyday speech
用法筆記
Informal and somewhat dated; used mostly in casual speech or by pilots and soldiers, not in formal aviation writing where 'helicopter' is standard.