Vesta

['vestə]

解释:

(noun.) the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered.

(noun.) (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia.

手打:西尔维亚--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.

(n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

(n.) A wax friction match.

校对:普拉特

解释:

n. among the Romans the chaste goddess that presided over the family in whose temple the sacred fire was continually kept burning: the fourth planetoid discovered in 1807: a match or waxlight:—pl. Ves′tas.—adj. Ves′tal pertaining to or consecrated to the service of Vesta: chaste: pure.—n. in the ancient Roman religion one of the six patrician virgins consecrated to Vesta: a virgin a nun a woman of spotless chastity.

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