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美音:[´ɔ:bət ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.轨道,势力范围,生活常规,眼眶 vt.绕...轨道而行 vi.进入轨道,沿轨道飞行,盘旋

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动词过去式:orbited 过去分词:orbited 现在分词:orbiting 第三人称单数:orbits

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orbit


/'ɔ:bɪt; `ɔrbɪt/
n
1 (a) path followed by a planet, star, moon, etc round another body (天体运行的)轨道
*the earth's orbit round the sun 地球绕行太阳的轨道.
(b) path of a man-made object, eg a satellite or space-craft, round a planet, star, etc (人造物体如卫星、航天器等飞行的)轨道
*The spacecraft is in orbit (ie moving in orbit) round the moon. 该航天器在绕月球轨道上飞行.
* How many satellites have been put into orbit round the earth? 有多少颗人造卫星已送入绕地球轨道?
2 area of power or influence; scope 势力范围
*Marketing does not come within the orbit of his department. 市场推销业务不归他这一部门管.

v [I, Tn] move in orbit round (sth) 在绕(某物)的轨道上运行; 环绕轨道运行
*orbit in space 在太空中沿轨道运行
* How many spacecraft have orbited the moon? 有多少航天器绕月球轨道运行?
1. Even a telescope in orbit round the earth, like the very successful Hubble telescope, would not be suitable because of the dust particles in our solar system.
    即使是一台放置在围绕地球的轨道上的望远镜--如非常成功的哈勃望远镜--也因为太阳系中的尘埃微粒而无法胜任。

2. It requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth´s surface into orbit!
    因此,从月球到地球的25万英里所消耗的能量要比从地球表面进入地球轨道的200英里所耗能量少97%。

3. The satellite was launched into the orbit around the moon.
    卫星被发射进入绕月球运行的轨道。

4. These mysterious patches of light are still visible today and so bright that they have been seen from U.S. spacecraft in orbit around the earth.
    这些神奇的光带如今仍然可见,而且明亮得连在绕地球轨道飞行的美国飞船里都可以看到。

5. An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular orbit, drawing the particle first towards the advancing wave,
    穿过深水的海浪使水面上的一个微粒按照一种近乎圆形的轨道移动,先把微粒拉向前移动的海浪,

6. Alternatively, if the star were small, the life-supporting planet would have to have a close orbit round it and also provide the perfect conditions for life forms to develop.
    反之,如果恒星很小,维持生命的行星就要在离恒星很近的轨道上运行,而且要有极好的条件才能使生命得以发展,

7. Similarly, our own present primitive chemical rockets, though good enough to orbit men,
    同样,我们目前使用的原始化学火箭,虽然把人送入轨道,

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