comet

英 ['kɒmɪt] 美['kɑmət]

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复数: comets;

comet 扫帚星

来自拉丁词cometa, 长发。因形如拖着的长头发而得名。

comet: comet: [13] Comet means literally ‘the longhaired one’. Greek kómē meant ‘hair’, but it was also applied metaphorically to the tail of a comet, which was thought of as streaming out behind like a luxuriant head of hair being blown by the wind. Hence an astēr kométēs ‘longhaired star’ was the name given to a comet. Eventually the adjective kométēs came to stand for the whole phrase, and it passed via Latin comēta and Old French comete into English.
comet (n.): c. 1200, from Old French comete (12c., Modern French comète), from Latin cometa, from Greek (aster) kometes, literally "long-haired (star)," from kome "hair of the head" (compare koman "let the hair grow long"), which is of unknown origin. So called from resemblance of a comet's tail to streaming hair.

1. They observed the comet for 70 days before it faded from sight.: 他们观察了这颗彗星70天，直至其慢慢从视线中消失。

2. Comet also sired the champion foal out of Spinway Harvest.: “彗星”还跟“斯平威·哈维斯特”生下了这匹出类拔萃的小马驹。

3. We were not altogether sure that the comet would miss the Earth.: 我们不能完全肯定彗星不会与地球相撞。

4. The orbit of this comet intersects the orbit of the Earth.: 这颗彗星的轨道与地球的轨道交叉。