中英互译
meteor
英 /ˈmiːtiə(r)/美 /ˈmiːtiər/
基本释义
- n.流星；大气现象
复数meteors
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词语例句
流星cn.
There are comets, meteors and black holes in the universe.
宇宙里有彗星、流星和黑洞。
- Like a flash of lightning, the meteor shot across the sky.流星像一道闪光划过天空。来自《新英汉大辞典》
- Now astronomers think it was a meteor that burned up high in the atmosphere.现在天文学家认为那是一颗在高空燃烧的流星。
- Some geoscientists think that this catastrophe involved a meteor striking the earth.一些地球科学家认为这次灾难与一颗流星撞击地球有关。
相关短语
- meteor shower[天]流星雨
- Meteor Shower一起来看流星雨；流星火雨；陨石雨
- Meteor Garden流星花园；你要的爱
- Meteor Crater巴林杰陨石坑；陨石坑
- meteor hammer流星锤；流星锤骑兵
- Meteor procession流星串
词语扩展
n.
[天]流星；[气象]大气现象
词义分布
流星
97.5%
陨星
2.5%
英英释义
- n.a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
- n.(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
- n.a piece of rock from space that burns very brightly when it falls to Earth
流星
词源
- meteor大气现象，流星来自希腊语ta meteora,天体现象，天空之上，来自meta-,在上，-eora,空中的，词源同air.引申词义气象。后特别用于指流星，可能因流星比较有代表性。其原义见：aerial meteors,风；aqueous meteors,雨；luminous meteors,极光；igneous meteors,流星。