空降 (kōng jiàng) — to airdrop; to land from the air (troops, supplies, etc.); (figurative) to be parachuted in; to appear suddenly from outside (a person, policy, etc.)

Definition

Examples

• 救援物资通过直升机空降到灾区。
  Jiù yuán wù zī tōng guò zhí shēng jī kōng jiàng dào zāi qū.
  Relief supplies were airdropped to the disaster area by helicopter.
• 公司空降了一位新总经理，大家都不熟悉他。
  Gōng sī kōng jiàng le yí wèi xīn zǒng jīng lǐ, dà jiā dōu bù shú xī tā.
  The company parachuted in a new general manager, and nobody knows him well.
• 这个项目是上面空降下来的，我们只能执行。
  Zhè ge xiàng mù shì shàng miàn kōng jiàng xià lái de, wǒ men zhǐ néng zhí xíng.
  This project was dropped on us from above; we can only carry it out.

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