shooting star
英 [ˌʃuːtɪŋ ˈstɑː(r)]
美 [ˌʃuːtɪŋ ˈstɑːr]
n. 流星
牛津词典
noun
- 流星
a small meteor (= a piece of rock in outer space) that travels very fast and burns with a bright light as it enters the earth's atmosphere
柯林斯词典
- 流星
Ashooting staris a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the earth's atmosphere from space, and is seen from earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky.
英英释义
noun
- 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
双语例句
- Based on its movement it could have been a shooting star rather than a fixed star.
基于它的运动，它应该是一颗流星，而不是恒星。 - The shooting star didn't grant me my wish.
流星没有让我的愿望成真。 - It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place
最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。 - Then I have made a terrible wish on a shooting star.
那样的话我对流星许了个太糟糕的愿了。 - I spotted a shooting star which, to my astonishment, was bright green in colour
我看见一颗流星，使我大为惊奇的是，它居然是鲜亮的绿色。 - Now we are going to make a shooting star in the distance at the top of our canvas.
现在，我们要在画面上部绘制一颗掠过远方的流星。 - These collisions with space debris can be minor – as in a shooting star on a summer night – or amazingly destructive, as in the collision that probably killed off the dinosaurs.
太空垃圾和地球碰撞的机率很小，就像夏夜划过流星，破坏性却很大，这种碰撞可以令恐龙灭绝。 - Maybe someday he become a shooting star in the sky.
可能他某天成为一个闪亮的星在天空。 - Like a shooting star giving off so much light.
就像是一颗流星放射出如此灿烂的光芒。 - It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.
一开始像是颗流星，可接着那轨迹越来越亮，变成两个光点，就像是火箭喷出的气流，那个东西一点没出声就着落了。