- 1星際的、星際間的。台灣片名《星際效應》；中國大陸作《星際穿越》。
When something is interstellar, it is happening or sitting in the space between the stars — not on a planet, and not just around our own Sun. Scientists talk about interstellar space, interstellar dust, and interstellar travel (going from one star system to another, which people cannot do yet). In films and games the word is used more loosely, as if it simply meant “far away among the stars.” It sounds scientific and a little grand. You will mostly meet it in science and science fiction. Though actually, stellar by itself can mean “excellent” in everyday talk (“a stellar performance”), but interstellar does not pick up that praise-meaning; it stays about the space between stars.
From the word’s history
From inter- + stellar.
由 inter-「之間」加 stellar「星星的」組成。
組成From inter- + stellar. inter- is Latin inter, “between.” stellar is from Latin stēllāris, “of a star,” from stella, “star.” So the pieces mean “between the stars.”
同家族的字
- stellarthe second half: of or like a star
- constellationshares Latin stella, star
- internationalshares inter-, between
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
interstellaradj
- 1
Between the stars.
- It can take centuries for light to travel interstellar distances.
- 2
Among the stars.
- Space is littered with interstellar particles.
- Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
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