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neptune

/nep-toon, -tyoon/US // ˈnɛp tun, -tyun //UK // (ˈnɛptjuːn) //

海王星,海神,海王星号,海神星

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any whelk of the genus Neptunea, especially N. decemcostata, common along the eastern coast of North America and having a shell with seven to ten raised reddish-brown spiral ridges on a pale beige or yellow background.

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  • She was brilliant and, though forbidden from studying, somehow knew there was something up in the heavens, which turned out to be Neptune, for whose discovery she received no credit.

  • The next planet out has a density like Neptune’s, about one-third Earth’s density.

  • On Neptune, by comparison, the gas layer only accounts for 5 to 15 percent of its total mass.

  • To get Neptune moving in precisely that way would have taken a serious jolt, likely a close encounter with another planet of perhaps comparable mass.

  • Near collisions between planets end with Jupiter sending Uranus or Neptune flying in 99 simulations out of 100.

  • Lakes on Titan are full of methane, and the chemical is a major component of the giant planets Jupiter, Neptune, and so forth.

  • For you, Saturn trining Neptune is a wake-up call to document ideas, first, and then punt them out into the universe.

  • But the opposition of Mars and Neptune indicates that the symptom is the cause.

  • Mercury squaring Neptune, later in the week, makes you hyper-realistic, if to a fault.

  • A Mars-Neptune opposition assures that current naysayers will end up kissing your ring.

  • Reckoning that Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system, that system would have a diameter of 5,584 millions of miles.

  • The captain immediately went on deck, and Neptune hailed from the fore part of the rigging, "What ship?"

  • Strange to say, the dog Neptune was the only one on board that appeared to mourn the loss of this passenger.

  • Tell mother not to be uneasy on that point, for though Neptune has the heart of a lion he has the temper of a lamb.

  • Our main radio is dead without fuel to run its dynamotors, and our auxiliary set hasn't the power to reach Neptune.