"thing thrown or discharged as a weapon," is 1650s, from missile (adj.), 1610s, "capable of being thrown," chiefly in phrase missile weapon, from French missile and directly from Latin missilis "that may be thrown or hurled" (also, in plural, as a noun, "weapons that can be thrown, darts, javelins"), from missus "a throwing, hurling," past participle of mittere "to send" (see mission). Sense of "self-propelled rocket or bomb" is first recorded 1738; the modern remote guidance projectile so called from 1945.
雙語例句
1. The plane was shot down in error by a NATO missile.
一枚北約的導彈誤將那架飛機擊落。
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2. The guidance systems didn't work and the missile couldn't hit its target.
導航係統失靈，導彈未能命中目標。
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3. They claimed to have shot down one incoming missile.
他們聲稱擊落了一枚來犯的導彈。
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4. The missile buried itself deep in the grassy hillside.
導彈深深地埋在雜草叢生的山坡上。
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5. Another missile exploded harmlessly outside the town.