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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, the next one out after Earth. It looks in the sky, which is why people call it the Red Planet: there is iron in the dust on its surface. It is smaller than Earth, much colder, and its air is very thin, so people cannot live there without special machines and buildings.
Mars is是 from the Sun離太陽 the fourth planet第四顆行星，after Earth在地球之後 the next one out再往外的下一顆。 It它 in the sky在天空中 looks reddish看起來偏紅，which is why所以 people人們 call it把它叫做 the Red Planet紅色行星：its surface它表面 in the dust的塵土裡 there is iron有鐵。 It它 than Earth比地球 is smaller小、much colder冷得多，and its air is very thin空氣又非常稀薄，so所以 without special machines and buildings沒有特殊的機器和建築 people人 cannot live there沒辦法住在那裡。
People often say it is the planet nearest to us. Though actually Venus comes closer at times; Mars is the next planet out, and the one we have studied most with robots.
People人們 often say常說 it它 is是 nearest to us離我們最近的 the planet那顆行星。 Though actually不過其實 Venus金星 at times有些時候 comes closer靠得更近；Mars is是 the next planet out往外的下一顆行星，and也是 with robots我們用機器人 the one we have studied most研究得最多的那一顆。
The name comes from Mars, the Roman god of war — the red colour made the Romans think of blood and fighting. English also uses Mars for that god, and there is a famous chocolate bar with the same name, but this word here is the planet.
The name這名字 comes from來自 the Roman god of war羅馬戰神 Mars——the red colour那紅色 made the Romans think of讓羅馬人想到 blood and fighting血和打仗。 English英語 also uses也用 Mars for that god稱那位神，and there is也有 with the same name一條同名的 a famous chocolate bar有名巧克力棒，but但 this word here這裡這個字 is the planet說的是行星。
Write it with a capital M. Things from Mars are .
Write it把它寫成 with a capital M大寫 M 開頭。 Things from Mars來自火星的東西 are Martian是 Martian。
原始詞典資料14 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。
Marsname詞源 1/ˈmɑːz/
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astronomynatural-sciencesThe fourth planet in the solar system. Symbol: ♂
- Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos.
- ‘There’s another one. There can’t be two Marses,’ said Phyllis. / And sure enough there was. A smaller red point, a little up from, and to the right of, the first.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe Roman god of war.
- Near-synonym: Ares (Greek counterpart)
- Mars was the lover of Venus, and together they had a daughter called Harmonia.
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War, personified.
- In the first half of the twentieth century, Mars devastated Europe.
- Mars rode upon the storm of horror and drank his fill of pain and blood. When the Serbian Army retreated before the foe, four times its own strength, it went backward facing the enemy and fighting every step of the way.
Marsnoun詞源 1/ˈmɑːz/
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raregovernmentheraldryhobbiesGules (red), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
- 4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol. [...] 12. Venus, a Staff in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Cross Pattee, Luna surmounted off a Pall of the last, charged with 4. like Crosses fitched Saturn, edged and stringed as the second. This Coat belongs to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, to whose place it appertains to Crown and Inaugurate the Kings of England.
- George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown. All within the Garter. Above the whole a Helmet suitable to his Majesty's Royal Jurisdiction, upon the same a rich Mantle of Cloth of Gold, doubled Ermine, a[…]
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obsoletealchemychemistrynatural-sciencesIron.
- The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).
Marsname詞源 2/ˈmɑːz/
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A surname.
- At a luncheon given yesterday at the Park Lane by Andrew H. Mars of Brooklyn for the Misses Marjorie Heather and Miriam Snyder, announcement was made of the engagement of his daughter, Miss Gladys L. Mars, to H. Grell Powers of this city.
- Florence Mars, a diminutive woman barely five feet tall, seemed an unlikely candidate for the defiant role she assumed. She was born on Jan. 1, 1923, to Adam Longino Mars, a lawyer, and Emily Geneva Johnson Mars, known as Neva.
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A brand of chocolate bar with caramel and nougat filling.
- Easily eight foot tall, each was big, brown and glutinous - like giant Mars Bars squeezed and welded into nightmarish sculptures.
- Meg eyed the five cubicles, each with its curtain drawn. “Which one is he in?” ¶ “Three. Once I’d treated him to a Mars and a bottle of Fanta, he seemed happy enough to wait.”
Marsname詞源 3/maɹs/
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A village in Semenivka urban hromada, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
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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。