Comet

(noun.) (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.

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• Ere long, some noted singers and musicians dawned upon the platform: as these stars rose, the comet-like professor set. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To aid the effect, a reflector was employed, and when the rays were directed to the clouds, they had the appearance of a huge comet, the reflector being the nucleus. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Bell called his boat the Comet, in commemoration of the remarkable eccentric luminary which was at that time frightening Europe from its propriety. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Gibbon couples the Justinian epidemic with the great comet of 531, and with the very frequent and serious earthquakes of that reign. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Alexandros began to move it about, and like the flaming sword of St Michael, or the tail of a comet, it swept in a tremendous arc across the dark sky. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The average individual does not bother himself much about the calculation of eclipses, or the laws which govern the movements of an erratic comet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Such a puff is what we call a comet. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Things will grow and ripen as if it were a comet year, said Will. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They have observed ninety-three different comets, and settled their periods with great exactness. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• He also invented a barometer, and as an astronomer suggested that the return of comets might be calculated. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• At the same time the book contains interesting conjectures in reference to the relati on of earthquakes and volcanoes, and to the fact that comets travel in fixed orbits. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The comets are to be regarded as parts of the system, akin to the planets, but more remote from the control of the centripetal forc e of the sun. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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