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(a) go up high in the air quickly 急速升入高空: The jet soared into the air. 那架喷气式飞机飞上了天空. * (fig 比喻) Prices are soaring, ierising rapidly. 物价飞涨. * (fig 比喻) soaring temperatures,ie rapidly getting very hot 迅速增高的温度. (b) be very high or tall 高耸; 矗立: cliffs soaring above the sea 矗立在海上的峭壁 * Skyscrapers soar above the horizon. 摩天大楼拔地而起高耸入云.
hover in the air without moving the wings or using the engine; glide ?翔; 滑翔: seagulls soaring over the cliffs ?翔於悬崖峭壁之上的海鸥 * a glider soaring above us 从我们头顶飞过的滑翔机.