Saturn

['sæt(ə)n] or ['sætɝn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun.

(noun.) (Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus; 'Saturday is Saturn's Day'.

校對:伊薇特--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

(n.) The metal lead.

手打:柯尔斯顿

解釋/意思:

n. the ancient Roman god of agriculture: one of the planets: (her.) a tincture in colour black.—n.pl. Saturnā′lia the annual festival in honour of Saturn a time of unrestrained license and enjoyment.—adjs. Saturnā′lian pertaining to the Saturnalia: riotously merry: dissolute; Satur′nian pertaining to Saturn whose fabulous reign was called 'the golden age:' happy: pure: simple: denoting the verse in which the oldest Latin poems were written; Sat′urnine grave: gloomy: phlegmatic—those born under the planet Saturn being so disposed: pertaining to lead.—n. Sat′urnist (obs.) a gloomy person.—Saturn's ring a ring round and near the planet; Saturn's tree an arborescent deposit of lead from a solution of lead acetate.

校對:西蒙