Orb

(verb.) move in an orbit; 'The moon orbits around the Earth'; 'The planets are orbiting the sun'; 'electrons orbit the nucleus'.

手打:特伦斯

• Looking into the orb of light, he sees nothing, but he is warmed and elevated. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr. Winkle looked up at the declining orb and painfully thought of the probability of his 'going down' himself, before long. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He writes: I began (1666) to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon, . 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The fashionable world--tremendous orb, nearly five miles round--is in full swing, and the solar system works respectfully at its appointed distances. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Becky added, gazing at that orb with a smile. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Several changes of day and night passed, and the orb of night had greatly lessened when I began to distinguish my sensations from each other. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• When the great orb of day disappears beneath the horizon the effect is precisely as that of the extinguishing of a single lamp within a chamber. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But soon the dim orb passed from over the sun, and lingered down the eastern heaven. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I suppose, Lucy Snowe, the orb of your life is not to be so rounded: for you, the crescent-phase must suffice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• At our right the sun was setting, a huge red orb, below the western range of Otz. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The bright orb slowly rose from behind its cupolas and towers, and shed its penetrating light upon the glassy waters. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• His orbs gleamed with a deadly light, but his lips moved not. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Some new danger, he thought, but he dared not take his eyes from the yellow green orbs before him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Nor could I be mistaken in the swift gleam of triumph that brightened those dark orbs for an instant. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The offender had barely time to take Mrs. Leo Hunter's proffered hand, when his eyes encountered the indignant orbs of Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I like all the novelties, said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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