n.[C]

1. （船舶的）領航員；舵手
   Mark Twain was once a river pilot on the Mississippi.

   馬克‧吐溫曾當過密西西比河上的領航員。

2. （飛機等的）駕駛員，飛行員
   The flying school graduates a hundred pilots a year.

   這個飛行學校一年畢業一百名飛行員。

3. 嚮導；領導人
4. 【美】（機車等的）排障器
5. 【機】【電】導向器；指示燈
6. （廣播或電視的）試播節目

a.[B]

1. 引導的；導向的
2. （小規模）試驗性的，試點的
   This year we are trying a pilot scheme.

   今年我們正在試驗一個小規模實驗性計畫。

vt.

1. 給（船等）領航[（+on/in/over）]
   Your job is to pilot the ship into the harbor.

   你的工作是引導該船入港。

2. 駕駛（飛機等）
   When did you learn to pilot an airplane?

   你什麼時候學會駕駛飛機的？

3. 帶領；引導；使順利通過[O][（+through）]
   He has piloted several bills through Congress.

   他已經使好幾個議案在國會通過。

   He piloted the old lady to her seat.

   他引導這位老婦人入席。

n.

1. a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft.
2. a person with expert local knowledge qualified to take charge of a ship entering or leaving a harbour.
   ▸archaic a guide or leader.
3. [often as modifier] something done or produced as an experiment or test before wider introduction:
   a pilot scheme.
4. Telecommunications  an unmodulated reference signal transmitted with another signal for the purposes of control or synchronization.

v.

1. act as a pilot of (an aircraft or ship).
   ▸guide; steer.
2. test (a scheme, project, etc.) before introducing it more widely.

[名]

1. ①（船舶等的）領航員。
2. ②（飛機等的）駕駛員；飛行員。