英语词汇“centaur”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cen·taur

(sĕntôr′)

1. Greek Mythology One of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse.

2. Astronomy Any of a group of icy asteroids that orbit the sun primarily in the region between Jupiter and Neptune, whose orbits they cross. Some centaurs appear to be more like comets than asteroids.

[Middle English, from Latin Centaurus, from Greek Kentauros. Sense 2, from the official convention of naming such objects after the centaurs of Greek mythology, a practice derived from the fact that the first such object to be observed was named after CHIRON.]

centaur

c. 900 bc Lefkandi centaur of Greece

单词	centaur
释义	cen·taur (sĕntôr′) n. 1. Greek Mythology One of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse. 2. Astronomy Any of a group of icy asteroids that orbit the sun primarily in the region between Jupiter and Neptune, whose orbits they cross. Some centaurs appear to be more like comets than asteroids. [Middle English, from Latin Centaurus, from Greek Kentauros. Sense 2, from the official convention of naming such objects after the centaurs of Greek mythology, a practice derived from the fact that the first such object to be observed was named after CHIRON.] centaur c. 900 bc Lefkandi centaur of Greece
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