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		Definition of soft landing in English: soft landingnoun  1A controlled landing of a spacecraft during which no serious damage is incurred. 软着陆 Example sentencesExamples -  But even a soft landing can still shake up the crew, whose bodies must quickly adjust from zero-gravity to Earth's gravitational pull.
 -  As Hayabusa continued its flight down to the asteroid, it homed in on the Target Marker it dropped onto the surface of Itokawa before its first soft landing on November 20.
 -  After leaving orbit, the spherical compartment separated from the equipment module and descended through the atmosphere, but it was not designed for a soft landing.
 -  Each of the inexpensive tail cones correctly guides its container to its mark and opens the parachute so it makes a soft landing and is recovered by friendly forces.
 -  The Soviet Union concentrated on unmanned flights, Luna IX achieving a soft landing on the Moon in 1966.
 -  He may not have been into space himself, but having helped design re-entry modules to enable soft landings on Earth, Mars, Venus and other planets, he knows what he is talking about.
 -  A slow rendezvous, or even a soft landing, was totally out of the question: Icarus would be moving too fast by 1968 for a spacecraft to reach it and then reverse direction for a rendezvous.
 -  The Stardust spacecraft will return to Earth in January 2006, and its sample return capsule will make a soft landing at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
 -  While he was flying nothing strange happened, but just moments, before he supposed to crush to the ground, the antigravitational forces come to work and Dimitri had a very soft landing.
 -  On January 31, 1966 the USSR launched Luna 9, which made mankind's first soft landing on the Moon.
 -  Foton doesn't rely only on parachutes for its soft landing: there is also a retro-rocket system that ignites as the package nears the ground.
 -  The pallet descended to a soft landing under almost two acres of parachutes.
 -  After being fully decelerated by the atmosphere, the capsule is designed to deploy a parachute for soft-landing.
 -  After being fully decelerated by the atmosphere, the Hayabusa capsule is designed to deploy a parachute for a soft landing in June 2007, in, as it stands now, south Australia.
 -  This mode had the advantage of simplicity but the disadvantage of requiring an enormous and expensive vehicle that could carry the fuel needed to make a soft landing on the Moon and relaunch from the lunar surface.
 -  Furthermore, the recovery of the experiment hardware after a nominal soft landing under parachute allows for its re-use in future missions.
 -  After its soft landing, the circular capsule opened like a flower, deploying its antennas, and began transmitting photographs and television images back to Earth
 -  Surveyor 1 made a successful soft landing in three centimeters of dust in the Ocean of Storms in June 1966.
 -  The Shuttle made a soft landing on the landing pad.
 
 - 1.1 The slowing down of economic growth at an acceptable degree relative to inflation and unemployment.
经济增长软着陆(指伴随可以接受的通货膨胀及失业状况的经济增长率缓慢滑坡) Example sentencesExamples -  The factors favoring this New Economy-style soft landing include a combination of good monetary and fiscal policy and a resilient economy.
 -  Xiao said he believed the economy would have a soft landing because the recent macro-economic index had demonstrated the effectiveness of austerity measures adopted this year.
 -  While the rapid acceleration in house prices may be on the wane, houses are not expected to lose their value and the property market is expected to have a soft landing.
 -  They're looking at where the market is going to go and I think it will be a soft landing.
 -  Bringing the real estate market to a soft landing will not only bring closure to a previous economic era but provide the stable foundation for a prosperous new one.
 -  Friends First director of investment strategy, economist Jim Power, said the slowdown was not surprising and indicated a soft landing for the economy.
 -  With the prudent approach taken by developers and lenders, we have secured a soft landing in the transition period.
 -  Many contractors now are guardedly optimistic that they will be able to manage a soft landing as the recession ends.
 -  The market will be coming off a five-year boom and will experience a soft landing next year.
 -  Calling on the government to moderate its spending policies next year, the Central Bank said such a move could make the difference ‘between a hard and a soft landing for the economy.’
 -  There is also a question about whether there could be a hard landing for the housing market alongside a soft landing for the economy as a whole.
 -  The bank report attributed the expected soft landing to the government's ‘balanced development strategy’ and macroeconomic control policies.
 -  The economy is now at a crucial stage where a dip in confidence or mishandling could turn a soft landing into a prolonged recession.
 -  The aim is to achieve what economists call a soft landing, turning that headlong rush into continued, sustainable growth.
 -  This is in line with the decline in house price inflation in recent months and is indicative of a soft landing rather than a house price crash.
 -  Although the economy is projected to come off that growth peak, commentators are predicting a soft landing, with growth slowing to just below trend.
 -  "Everything looks pretty rosy and still placed solidly for a soft landing, " JPMorgan economist Ben Simpfendorfer said.
 -  This economy is slowing far more than anybody anticipated, certainly more than Alan Greenspan anticipated, when he suggested that we had to slow down the economy to get a soft landing.
 -  Up until today every sign was pointing to the property market slowing down, heading for a relatively soft landing instead of the much-feared crash.
 -  We expect a soft landing over the rest of this year and into 2005 as the market returns to more normal sustainable levels.
 
  
 
 Derivativesverb ˌsɒf(t)ˈland [no object](of a spacecraft) land in a controlled manner without incurring serious damage.  the unmanned lunar rover has successfully soft-landed on the moon Example sentencesExamples - with object the first time humans have soft-landed a probe on a comet's surface
 - The surface of Venus has been seen by a series of seven Soviet probes that soft-landed on Venus between 1985 and 1992.
 - Twenty-five years ago, on July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander soft-landed on the surface of Mars, becoming the first successful mission to land on the Red Planet, as well as the first successful American landing on another planet.
 - The station successfully soft-landed on the Oceanus Procellarum, or ‘Ocean of Storms ‘on 3 February 1966.’
 
 
 
    Definition of soft landing in US English: soft landingnounˌsôft ˈlandiNG A controlled landing of a spacecraft during which no serious damage is incurred. 软着陆 Example sentencesExamples -  After leaving orbit, the spherical compartment separated from the equipment module and descended through the atmosphere, but it was not designed for a soft landing.
 -  After being fully decelerated by the atmosphere, the Hayabusa capsule is designed to deploy a parachute for a soft landing in June 2007, in, as it stands now, south Australia.
 -  On January 31, 1966 the USSR launched Luna 9, which made mankind's first soft landing on the Moon.
 -  Surveyor 1 made a successful soft landing in three centimeters of dust in the Ocean of Storms in June 1966.
 -  As Hayabusa continued its flight down to the asteroid, it homed in on the Target Marker it dropped onto the surface of Itokawa before its first soft landing on November 20.
 -  A slow rendezvous, or even a soft landing, was totally out of the question: Icarus would be moving too fast by 1968 for a spacecraft to reach it and then reverse direction for a rendezvous.
 -  Each of the inexpensive tail cones correctly guides its container to its mark and opens the parachute so it makes a soft landing and is recovered by friendly forces.
 -  Foton doesn't rely only on parachutes for its soft landing: there is also a retro-rocket system that ignites as the package nears the ground.
 -  The pallet descended to a soft landing under almost two acres of parachutes.
 -  The Soviet Union concentrated on unmanned flights, Luna IX achieving a soft landing on the Moon in 1966.
 -  After being fully decelerated by the atmosphere, the capsule is designed to deploy a parachute for soft-landing.
 -  Furthermore, the recovery of the experiment hardware after a nominal soft landing under parachute allows for its re-use in future missions.
 -  The Shuttle made a soft landing on the landing pad.
 -  The Stardust spacecraft will return to Earth in January 2006, and its sample return capsule will make a soft landing at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
 -  He may not have been into space himself, but having helped design re-entry modules to enable soft landings on Earth, Mars, Venus and other planets, he knows what he is talking about.
 -  But even a soft landing can still shake up the crew, whose bodies must quickly adjust from zero-gravity to Earth's gravitational pull.
 -  This mode had the advantage of simplicity but the disadvantage of requiring an enormous and expensive vehicle that could carry the fuel needed to make a soft landing on the Moon and relaunch from the lunar surface.
 -  After its soft landing, the circular capsule opened like a flower, deploying its antennas, and began transmitting photographs and television images back to Earth
 -  While he was flying nothing strange happened, but just moments, before he supposed to crush to the ground, the antigravitational forces come to work and Dimitri had a very soft landing.
 
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