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meteoroid

英 /'miːtɪərɒɪd/ 美 /'mitɪər,ɔɪd/

n. 流星体

短语

例句

• 1

  Shortly before the uninhabited space station reached orbit in .May 1973,aeroaynamic pressure ripped off a meteoroid and heat shield.

  在1973年5月无人空间站到达轨道前不久，空气动力压力扯破了一个流星体和挡热板。 分析：首先，从逻辑上看，说：“空气动力压力扯破了一个流星体”，是不合事理的，荒谬可笑的。

• 2

  When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere of the earth (becoming a meteor), it is actually the speed compressing the air in front of the object that causes it to heat up.

  流星体闯入地球的大气层（变成流星之前）时，由于高速飞行，它的前端与空气强烈摩擦发热。

• 3

  Turn the globe by just a few hours earlier on that day in June and the meteoroid would have been over the border of Pakistan and India–exactly where everyone was fearing a nuclear attack.

  如果六月的这天，地球转动退回到几小时前，流星降落的地方就正好是巴基斯坦和印度的交界处，世人唯恐发生核战的交界地。

同根词

adj.meteoric 大气的；流星的；疾速的

n.meteor 流星；[气象] 大气现象

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