Neptune
['nɛptjun]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; 'the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846'.
(noun.) (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon.
整理:米莉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
(n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
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解釋/意思:
n. (Rom. myth.) the god of the sea identified with the Greek Poseidon represented with a trident in his hand: (astron.) the outermost planet of the solar system discovered in 1846.—adj. Neptū′nian pertaining to the sea: (geol.) formed by water: applied to stratified rocks or to those due mainly to the agency of water as opposed to Plutonic or Igneous.—n. Nep′tūnist one who holds the Neptunian theory in geology—also adj.
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例句/造句/用法:
- His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- When Lalande's records in Paris were studied, it was found that he had made two observations of Neptune on May 8 and 10. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- They were changes an immortal astronomer in Neptune, watching the earth from age to age, would have found almost imperceptible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No matter how staunch, sound and grand in dimensions man may build his ships, old Neptune can still toss them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Can it be Neptune? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Arago named the new planet after the French discoverer, but soon acquiesced in the name Neptune, which has since prevailed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the succeeding year he built other boats, the _Rariton_, to run from New York to New Brunswick, and _The Car of Neptune_ as a second Hudson River boat. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In Feb ruar y of that year he had found (as had Petersen of Altona about the same time) that Lalande had in May, 1795, observed Neptune and mistaken it for a fixed star. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Neptune's orbit is more nearly circular than that of any of the major planets except Venus. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Walker, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, was able to determine the elements of the orbit of Neptune accurately in 1847. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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