| 单词 | asteroid belt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasasteroid belt asteroid belt n. the region of space encircling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in which the majority of the solar system's asteroids have their orbits; (also chiefly Science Fiction) any region of space in which large numbers of asteroids are found.Also used in figurative contexts: see quot. 2017. ΚΠ 1867 J. Ennis Origin of Stars xxxiii. 292 In view of the dimensions of the rings which formed the planets.., we cannot suppose that a single ring occupied all the space within the asteroid belt. 1939 A. Asimov in Amazing Stories Mar. 68/1 We should have avoided the asteroid belt by plotting a course outside the plane of the ecliptic. 1990 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III (1992) ii. 61 The kzinti had had the gravity polarizer from the beginnings of their time in space, and so had never colonized their asteroid belt. 2003 Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer (Nexis) 6 Mar. a11 [The Pioneer satellite] became the first..object to get through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. 2017 A. S. Greer Less (2018) 95 Less feels his mind drifting away like a spaceman from an airlock, off into the asteroid belt of his own concerns. < as lemmas |
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