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    A horoscope is a reading of your character, and of what may happen to you, drawn from where the sun, moon, and planets stood when you were born — and, in the newspaper kind, from where they stand today.

    A horoscope is a reading of your characterhoroscope是對你性格的一種解讀 and of what may happen to you也解讀你未來可能發生的事 drawn from where the sun, moon, and planets stood when you were born根據你出生時太陽、月亮、和行星的位置推算出來 and, in the newspaper kind, from where they stand today而報紙上那種則是根據它們今天的位置

    Magazines and apps print a short horoscope for each of the twelve star signs; that is the everyday use. A fuller one maps the sky at the minute you arrived.

    Magazines and apps print a short horoscope for each of the twelve star signs雜誌和app會針對十二星座各印一小段horoscope that is the everyday use這是最常見的用法 A fuller one maps the sky at the minute you arrived更完整的那種horoscope會畫出你出生那一刻的星空圖

    Plenty of people read theirs for fun and do not treat it as science; others take it quite seriously. It belongs to , not to astronomy (the science of stars). The word is a bit newspaper-and-app; in a science class you would not use it as a fact.

    Plenty of people read theirs for fun很多人只是為了好玩而看自己的horoscope and do not treat it as science並不把它當成科學 others take it quite seriously但也有人相當認真看待 It belongs to astrology它屬於astrology(占星學) not to astronomy (the science of stars)而不是astronomy(研究星星的天文學) The word is a bit newspaper-and-app這個字比較是報紙、app會用的字 in a science class you would not use it as a fact在科學課上你不會把它當成事實來用

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組成From French horoscope, from Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos): ὥρα (hṓra, “a limited time”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”). By the look of the English word: horo- + -scope.

同家族的字

  • hourfrom the same Greek word ὥρα, a limited stretch of time
  • telescopeshares -scope, “a watcher” or something you look through

原始詞典資料2 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。

horoscopenoun/ˈhɒ.ɹə.skəʊp/

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    The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.

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    An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.

    • We must talk of the force of circumstances, of imperative necessity, and find fault with the cruel horoscope which ordained such a fate.
    • "Ah, min hart! And what day was it?" "How curious you are! Do you want to cast my horoscope?"

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。