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Relating to the stars. It's also used in spiritual or 'new age' talk to describe things related to a spirit or soul separate from the physical body, as in 'astral projection' — the idea that your spirit can leave your body and travel around.
星星的、星辰的; (新時代用語)靈體的
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
astraladj/ˈæstɹəl/
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Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
- Some Aſtral forms I muſt invoke by prayer, / Fram'd of all pureſt Atoms of the Air; [...]
- The first thing a visitor arriving by carriage from London would have noticed was that eighty-foot pole aimed at the sky, supported by huge struts near the base. Contrary to local rumors, it was not an instrument of divination but a towering mount for one of Cavendish’s telescopes. Upon renting the estate in 1785, he immediately sketched out a design for this impressive piece of equipment, a crucial adjunct to his plan to convert the upper floor of the house into an astral observatory, complete with a transit room for recording the positions of stars as they traversed the meridian.
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biologynatural-sciencesRelating to an aster.
- astral rays
- astral sphere
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fantasyparapsychologypseudoscienceComposed of ethereal material or non-physical (sometimes supersensible), and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body (as an astral body) to travel to other places or to other realms of existence (in or via the astral plane).
- In the case of an inanimate body, […] when the physical object was broken the astral counterpart would also be divided; but it would not be possible to break an astral counterpart, and in that way to affect the physical object. In other words the act of fraction must begin on the physical plane. One could of course move a purely astral object by means of an astral hand if one wished, but not the astral counterpart of a physical object. In order to perform this latter feat it would be necessary to materialize a hand and move the physical object, when the astral counterpart would of course accompany it.
- "[I could] see her astral form sitting on the edge of her bed. She was waiting for me."
astralnoun/ˈæstɹəl/
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parapsychologypseudoscienceA supernatural being from the astral plane.
- Now both of you sit there and wait for any guides to come to you, any astrals or people from that life to make themselves known to you.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。