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单词 betelgeuse
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Betelgeusen.

Brit. /ˈbiːtldʒəːz/, /ˈbɛtldʒəːz/, /ˈbiːtldʒuːs/, U.S. /ˈbidlˌdʒus/, /ˈbidlˌdʒəz/, /ˈbɛdlˌdʒəz/
Forms: Also Betelgeux /-ʒœ/.
Etymology: < French Bételgeuse, < Arabic.
Astronomy.
A yellowish-red variable star of the first magnitude, the brightest in the constellation of Orion.
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Betelgeuse1796
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 205/1 Betelgeuse, a fixed star of the first magnitude in the right shoulder of Orion.
1820 H. Brooke Guide to Stars 12 A line from the Pleiades..will give Bellatrix in the western shoulder of Orion, and the bright star immediately to the eastward is Betelgeux in the right or eastern shoulder.
1866 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens ii. viii. 355 Betelgeuse, the brightest star in Orion, and Aldebaran show a decided red tint.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 49 The heavens are wandering The moon and the earth, the sun, Saturn and Betelgeuse.
1938 R. Graves Coll. Poems 121 We have no truck either with the forebeings Of Betelgeux or with the atom's git.
1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. III. 109/2 On Orion's shoulder the giant orange star Betelgeuse shines.
1962 Listener 31 May 950/1 Betelgeux in Orion..is a typical Red Giant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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