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Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun — the last of the eight we still call planets, now that has been moved into a smaller group. It is a huge, cold world of ice and gas, not rock you could stand on.
Neptune海王星 is the eighth planet from the Sun是太陽系的第八顆行星 the last of the eight we still call planets也是我們仍稱作行星的最後一顆 now that Pluto has been moved into a smaller group因為冥王星已經被歸到一個較小的類別 It is它是 a huge, cold world of ice and gas一個巨大、寒冷、由冰和氣體構成的世界 not rock you could stand on不是你可以站上去的岩石。
It looks deep blue because a gas around it swallows the red light and leaves the blue. Sunlight there is weak, and one year on Neptune (one trip around the Sun) takes about 165 of our years.
It looks deep blue它看起來是深藍色的 because a gas around it swallows the red light and leaves the blue因為它周圍的氣體把紅光吸收掉,只留下藍光。 Sunlight there is weak那裡的陽光很微弱, and one year on Neptune (one trip around the Sun) takes about 165 of our years而海王星上的一年(繞太陽一圈)大約是我們的165年。
The name is not a lab word. It is the name of the old Roman god of the sea, chosen when this far blue world was found in 1846.
The name is not a lab word這個名字不是實驗室裡發明出來的字。 It is the name of the old Roman god of the sea它是古羅馬海神的名字, chosen when this far blue world was found in 1846在1846年發現這個遙遠的藍色世界時被選來命名的。
That is why Chinese calls it 海王星, “sea-king star.” Though actually the Romans never knew the planet; they only knew the god.
That is why Chinese calls it 海王星這就是為什麼中文叫它海王星, "sea-king star."「海之王的星」。 Though actually the Romans never knew the planet不過其實羅馬人根本不知道有這顆行星; they only knew the god他們只知道那位神。
Same name, two things: the god with his three-pointed spear in stories, and the planet in science class.
Same name, two things同一個名字,指兩件事: the god with his three-pointed spear in stories故事裡拿著三叉戟的神, and the planet in science class還有科學課裡的那顆行星。
People sometimes joke that a place is “as far as Neptune” when they mean far, but that is play, not a set phrase you must learn.
People sometimes joke that a place is "as far as Neptune"有時候人們會開玩笑說某個地方「像海王星一樣遠」 when they mean hopelessly far意思是遠得沒希望, but that is play, not a set phrase you must learn但那只是玩笑話,不是你一定要學的固定用法。
組成From Middle English Neptune, borrowed from Latin Neptūnus, the Roman god of the sea. That name may come from an old word meaning “damp” or “cloudy” — wet, like the sea (the same old root shows up in Greek and Sanskrit words for cloud). Some scholars instead tie it to an old word for “child” or “descendant,” the family of nephew. Both ideas are guesses; nobody in Rome left a note saying why the god was called that.
原始詞典資料6 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。
Neptunename/ˈnɛptjuːn/
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astronomynatural-sciencesThe eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆.
- At a meeting of the French Academy of Science, M. Leverrier presented a fifth and final memoir on the new planet, which M. Arago proposes to be called Neptune.
- It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December. Such a piece of news was scarcely calculated to interest a world the greater portion of whose inhabitants were unaware of the existence of the planet Neptune, nor outside the astronomical profession did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any very great excitement. Scientific people, however, found the intelligence remarkable enough, even before it became known that the new body was rapidly growing larger and brighter, that its motion was quite different from the orderly progress of the planets, and that the deflection of Neptune and its satellite was becoming now of an unprecedented kind.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology.
- And Pitheus alſo had giuen it out abroad, that he was begotten of Neptune, becauſe the TROEZENIANS haue this god in great veneration, and doe worſhip him as patron and protector of their citie, making offerings to him of their firſt fruits: and they haue for the marke and ſtamp of their money, the three picked mace, which is the ſigne of Neptune, called his Trident.
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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。