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
  Synonym:meteor

双语例句

• A bright shooting star, or meteor, is an unforgettable sight.
  明亮的流星，或者说陨石，是番难忘的景象。
• There's a shooting star, just there, right above us.
  一颗流星，刚从我们头上划过。
• 'We saw a very bright shooting star.' —'Did you really? '
  “我们看到了一颗很明亮的流星。”——“真的吗？”
• 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。
• The next time you make a wish, instead of wishing on a shooting star, or throwing pennies into a wishing well, you can try the Japanese way of wishing during the Tanabata Festival.
  下次你要许愿时，不用对着流星许愿或是把硬币丢到许愿井里，你可以在七夕节的时候试一试日本的许愿方式。
• The museum has a red star-shaped gate piercing into the ground, like a shooting star that falls from the sky.
  站在博物馆的大门前，斜插入地的红色星形大门如星辰坠落，简洁有力；
• Local authorities determined it was made by a shooting star.
  当地有关部门认定是流星导致的。
• At the same time, a shining thing is falling to the ground like a shooting star without anyone's attention.
  而谁也没有注意到在杀戮的同时，有一个散发着丝丝光芒的东西象流星一样向地面坠落。