1. 1天文館(放星星的那間圓頂廳常叫天象廳;投影機叫天象儀)

    A planetarium is a special building, or a round hall inside a museum, where you sit in the dark and look up at a curved ceiling. Lights on that ceiling make a picture of the night sky: stars, planets, the Moon, and how they move through the year. It is not the real sky. It is a show, often with a teacher or a recorded voice telling you what you are seeing. People go there to learn about space on a rainy night, or in a bright city where real stars are hard to see. Though actually, speakers also use planetarium for the machine that throws the lights, not only for the building. It is a school-and-museum word. You would not use it for standing in a field and looking up.

組成Borrowed from New Latin planētārium. Equivalent to planet + -arium. The ending -arium means “a place for” something.

同家族的字

  • planetthe first half: the wandering lights in the sky that the hall is built to show
  • aquariumsame ending -arium, “a place for” (here, water animals instead of a sky)
  • solariumsame ending -arium, “a place for” the sun / sunlight

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。

planetariumnoun/plænɪˈtɛəɹɪəm/

  • 1

    A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.

  • 2

    An orrery.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。