Taurus
['tɔ:rəs]
解释:
(noun.) the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20.
(noun.) a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini.
(noun.) (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus.
卡里校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
(n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
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同义词及近义词:
n. (Astron.) The Bull.
编辑:鲁弗斯
解释:
n. the Bull one of the signs of the zodiac.—adjs. Tau′rian pertaining to a bull; Tau′riform having the form of a bull; Tau′rīne bull-like.—ns. Taurobō′lium the slaughter of a bull in the Mithraic rites or an artistic representation of the same; Taurom′achy bull-fighting.—adj. Tauromor′phous bull-shaped.
编辑:丽诺尔
例句:
- THE stars still shone brightly when I awoke, and Taurus high in the southern heaven shewed that it was midnight. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Gradually the Ottoman princes consolidated an empire that reached from the Taurus mountains in the east to Hungary and Roumania in the west. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They had to be sea attacks because Islam, so long as it was under Arab rule, never surmounted the barrier of the Taurus Mountains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But at the Taurus Mountains the Moslem thrust was held. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
校对:南森