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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 na·celle /nəˈsɛl/
 飛機的引擎機艙,飛機的駕駛員室,吊籃

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Na·celle n.
 1. A small boat. [Obs.]
 2.  The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.
 3.  A streamlined enclosure on an airplane, as for the engine or for the cargo or passengers; -- formerly used to refer to the boatlike, inclosed body of an airplane which is usually now called the fuselage, and now referring mostly to the enclosure for the engine.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 nacelle
      n : a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine