comets

英 [ˈkɒmɪts]

美 [ˈkɑməts]

n.  彗星; 扫帚星
comet的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 彗星
  Acometis a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
  1. Halley's Comet is going to come back in 2061.
     哈雷彗星将于2061年回归。

双语例句

• Both ice and organic materials, which are similar to tar or coal, were believed to have been delivered millions of years ago by comets and asteroids crashing into the planet.
  冰和有机物质，类似于柏油和煤炭，被认为是百万年前由彗星和小行星与水星碰撞时产生的。
• We need to study more comets.
  我们需要研究更多的首星。
• As comets go, it is a whopper.
  就彗星而言，它可是个庞然大物。
• Many scientists believe that Lunar craters were formed by the collision of meteors and comets against the moon.
  许多科学家相信，月球坑穴是流星和彗星碰撞月球所造成的。
• What role did comets play in this evolution?
  彗星在这种进化中起到了什么作用？
• They were stars, I knew, and flaring comets, that peopled my flight among the suns.
  我知道是这些星辰和闪烁的慧星遍布在我飞行恒星之间的航程中。
• Scientists want to study comets because they may be the oldest objects in our solar system.
  科学家之所以要研究彗星，是因为它们可能是太阳系中最古老的星球。
• Comets are just as much members of the sun's family as ( are) the other planets.
  彗星和其他的行星同样是太阳家族的成员。
• Comets are huge balls made of ice, dust and rocks.
  彗星是一个个巨大的球体，由冰、灰尘以及岩石组成的。
• Like his peers, geophysicist Steven Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed that water on Earth originated from comets.
  美国西北大学地球物理学家史蒂文雅各布森曾认为，地球上的水源于彗星。