control tower

英 [kənˈtrəʊl taʊə(r)]

美 [kənˈtroʊl taʊər]

n.  (机场的)指挥塔台，控制塔，指挥调度台

牛津词典

noun

• （机场的）指挥塔台，控制塔，指挥调度台
  a building at an airport from which the movements of aircraft are controlled

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (飞机场的)指挥塔台，控制塔，指挥调度员
  Acontrol toweris a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as thecontrol tower.
  1. The pilot told the control tower that he'd run into technical trouble.
     飞行员报告机场控制塔他遇到了技术问题。

英英释义

noun

• a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport

双语例句

• It attempted the emergency landing after reporting a technical failure to the control tower without specifying it.
  它向指挥塔报告技术故障，但没讲明，之后试图紧急迫降。
• She was quickly spotted by workers in the air traffic control tower and they rerouted a small plane that had just landed.
  但空中交通指挥塔台的工作人员发现了她，并立刻变更了一架刚着陆的小型飞机的路线。
• A handoff of the aircraft from one control tower to another.
  把飞机由一架控制塔转交给另一架控制塔。
• Swaziland's International Airport has no working control tower or radar system, and lighting for nighttime landings is so poor that pilots are forced to fly by memory, the government has been told.
  斯威士兰政府获悉，该国国际机场的指挥塔和雷达系统都已失灵，夜间降落的照明条件也很差，使得飞行员只能凭记忆飞行。
• Infantrymen ran to secure all access to roads to the airport and to take over New Terminal and the control tower.
  步兵跑去把守所有机场出入道路，占领新航站楼以及控制塔台。
• This guy should have stayed in the control tower.
  这家伙真应该继续留在塔台。
• By this time, officials in the Brussels control tower could tell that something was very wrong.
  这时候，布鲁塞尔控制塔的官员们知道大事不妙了。
• The plane buzzed the control tower.
  飞机低低地飞过控制塔。
• Control tower: a tower at an airfield from which air traffic is controlled by radio and observed physically and by radar.
  指挥塔台：可在其中用无线电指挥空中交通并可用肉眼或雷达观察空中交通的机场指挥塔台。
• In1930, the first radio-equipped control tower in the United States began operating at the Cleveland Municipal Airport.
  1930年，美国第一个配备无线电台的塔台在俄亥俄州克利夫兰市地方机场投入使用。