- 1史普尼克（蘇聯人造衛星，1957 年史普尼克一號是人類第一顆繞地球的衛星）；台灣課本多寫「史普尼克」，中國大陸常寫「斯普特尼克」
Sputnik was the name the Soviet Union gave to its first space satellites — machines sent up to circle the Earth. Sputnik 1 went up in October 1957, and it was the first man-made object ever to go around our planet. It was a metal ball, about the size of a beach ball, with four long antennas, and all it really did was go beep-beep on the radio. But the whole world could hear it, and that was the point. There were later ones too — Sputnik 2 carried the dog Laika — so you may see "the Sputniks" in the plural. Because the Americans were shocked that the Soviets got there first, the word came to stand for a whole moment in history: people talk about "the Sputnik moment", meaning the day a country suddenly realises a rival is ahead and starts to run. You will meet this word mostly in history books, science writing, and news pieces that reach back to the Cold War; it is a name, so it takes a capital S. In Russian the word just means "satellite", or more literally "travelling companion" — one who goes along the same road with you — which is a lovely thing to call a machine that keeps following the Earth around.
組成From Russian спутник (sputnik) "satellite, travelling companion": с- (s-) "with, together" + путь (put') "road, way" + -ник (-nik) "a person who does/is". Put together: "the one who travels the road with you".
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Sputniknoun
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An adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19, developed in Russia.
- For the record, Stone has been quadruple-vaxxed against covid-19: “Two Sputniks and two Pfizers,” he says proudly.
Sputnikname
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A village in Pechengsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
sputniknoun/ˈspʊtnɪk/
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historicalAny of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
- Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. The science wasn't even there yet. NASA didn't exist. But after investing in better research and education, we didn't just surpass the Soviets; we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. This is our generation's Sputnik moment. Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the Space Race. And in a few weeks, I will be sending a budget to Congress that helps us meet that goal.
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datedAny artificial satellite.
- BEFORE school rocketed into his tiny world with about as much warning as a sputnik, my son knew only little hates.
- With this program, we could bring water to the Middle East. We could rebuild some of our sagging esteem in that part of the world; we could insure that in this area at least we would have our sputniks abreast the Russians', and we could do our own economy a priceless good turn.
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slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsThe currency sign ¤.
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