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

• Because air traffic control was asleep on duty, ( the plane) called many times, civil aviation authorities said in a statement, but there was no reply, and no contact could be made with the control tower.
  民航管理局在声明中指出，因塔台管制员在岗位上睡着，多次呼叫无人应答，未能与塔台建立联系。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But we just sat on the runway due to a problem in the control tower.
  但其实我们也就是呆在跑道上，因为控制塔台出问题了。
• Landing: the pilot receives landing clearance from the Local Controller in the airport's control tower to landing on a designated runway.
  落地：飞行员从机场塔台的进场管制员处得到落地许可，操作飞机降落在预订跑道上。
• 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。
• 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。
• One 16-inch shell struck the control tower
  一枚16英寸的炮弹击中了指挥塔台。
• Drones/ Fighters cannot be launched and fighters cannot be delegated while inside a control tower force field.
  当在控制塔力场范围内，无人机/骑无人机不能被释放。