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celestial sphere

天球,天体,天球仪,天界

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the imaginary spherical shell formed by the sky, usually represented as an infinite sphere, the center of which is a given observer's position.

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  • To replicate how humans perceive the celestial sphere, a team of researchers considered how the eye might travel randomly across this night sky.

  • In the fourth and third centuries BCE, Plato, Aristotle, and other philosophers went all in on the notion that the planets and stars were embedded in eternally rotating celestial spheres.

  • The digital dating sphere can prove tricky, and bruising, for the trans user.

  • This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.

  • In almost every sphere of life, the trend is to trade in ownership for access.

  • At that point, a sphere lit up, resembling the landing of the UFO in E.T., and the overheard lights descended on the stage.

  • Why tolerate toxicity in a powerful sphere of modern life that has the potential to—and does—benefit so many?

  • Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.

  • If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.

  • The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.

  • But in 1811 he was recalled to Paris to receive orders before starting on a new sphere of duty.

  • Hence in the house, the sphere of the Genius is no longer the hearth but the marriage-bed (lectus genialis).