| 单词 | comet-like |
| 例句 | And she would reply, “Sirs — you have gravity enough without me. And when I return, comet-like, to your orbit, you will welcome me all the more for my rarity and dazzle.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a comet-like thing. You might only meet those people once every … how often do comets circle?” With ‘Letters From Max’ Onstage, Sarah Ruhl Again Mourns a Poet’s Death 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Sharply drawn characters from the margins of life populate his songs, which tend to light up the artsy-folk/alt-country firmament with comet-like regularity every few years when he releases an album. Cultural Clicks: Madeline Kahn, Kimmy Schmidt and More 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Initially, due to its comet-like shape, astronomers suspected it was the result of stellar winds or jets of particles that originated from the black hole. Astronomers are racing to study X7 before the Milky Way's central black hole destroys it 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Around 20 other belt-bound objects seen shedding mass — possibly because of comet-like periodic ice vaporization, wild spinning or recent impacts by asteroids — are considered candidates to be comets. The Mysterious Comets That Hide in the Asteroid Belt 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Subsequent observations from telescopes on Earth as well as the Hubble and Webb space telescopes revealed a long trail of debris, creating a comet-like effect. NASA reports smashing success with asteroid redirection test 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A telescope in Chile captured the remarkable image of a comet-like plume spreading behind the giant rock. Asteroid struck by Nasa probe leaves 10,000km trail 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z As this comet-like bombardment progressed, Earth accumulated the water and various organic compounds that would later be critical to the formation of life. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z His spot, when the horn sounded, was as a savvy and mature veteran who just upended the sport’s world, ended the comet-like Zion era and propelled his team into the Final Four. Perspective | It took a man to beat these Duke kids. The man was Cassius Winston. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z A separate study, published in October in The Astronomical Journal, detailed the implications of comet-like objects that may be "ferrying" microbial life across thousands of light-years. Life on Earth may have come from a collision with ancient planet more than 4 billion years ago 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But the spacecraft must also avoid overshooting, which would cause it to skim the Sun in a comet-like orbit. All systems go for second-ever mission to enter Mercury’s orbit 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z "There's becoming an increasingly blurry line between the two as we are finding comet-like objects in the main asteroid belt," says Prof Sara Russell of London's Natural History Museum. Interstellar visitor's identity solved 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z That doesn’t mean `Oumuamua hosts life, but it does look similar to small comet-like objects in our own Solar System that are also covered in icy carbon. The interstellar asteroid visiting our Solar System may be shielding an icy core 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The two comet-like statuettes commemorate titles from Major League Soccer’s early years, and the three cups that complete the quintet speak to the LA Galaxy’s staying power. LA Galaxy ditch their ageing stars – but can they still be successful? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Scientists begin to wonder whether it wouldn’t be better classified “a unique asteroid or an extraordinary comet-like object.” On the birthday of Pluto’s discovery, Science takes a look back on the dwarf planet’s long, strange history 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z For some, it’s a comet-like year of success followed by regression to the mean — think Michael Morse. Have you heard this one before? Former Mariners are just blooming elsewhere 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Without revealing too much past the premise, the story begins in outer space – a frame-filling title reading "Outer Space" erases any doubt – with a comet-like force directing itself toward the Earth. AMC's faith in 'Preacher' largely pays off 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Astronomers think that most of the objects passing in between stars — called interstellar space — are more comet-like than asteroid-like. The interstellar asteroid visiting our Solar System may be shielding an icy core 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z It is called 2014 MU69, and was one of two comet-like objects that were under consideration by scientists working on the mission. New Horizons: Pluto probe's next target chosen - BBC News 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The reclassification means that Pluto is now officially bigger than Eris, one of hundreds of thousands of mini-planets and comet-like objects circling beyond Neptune in a region called the Kuiper Belt. Pluto: What have we learned so far? - BBC News 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Pluto is now officially bigger than Eris, one of hundreds of thousands of mini-planets and comet-like objects circling beyond Neptune in a region called the Kuiper Belt. NASA’s New Horizons probe finds Pluto is bigger than predicted 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z That premise is amusingly visualized in the trailer as a herd of dinos watch a huge comet-like asteroid blaze overheard. The first teaser for Pixar's The Good Dinosaur is here 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z This was interpreted as material ejected from the surface, partly on the basis that Chiron is known to be an active, comet-like object. A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo 2014-04-04T18:25:37.267Z Freak space rock spins dusty trail: The Hubble telescope has spotted an asteroid radiating six comet-like tails, making it resemble a “rotating lawn sprinkler”. Physics Week in Review: November 9, 2013 2013-11-09T20:45:03.370Z Outfielder Bryce Harper, a No. 1 pick, also made a comet-like ascension with the Nationals. One crazy summer for Bryant 2013-08-26T00:31:00Z Machiavelli's observations of Cesare, contained in diplomatic reports of their meetings both at the zenith and the nadir of the young Borgias' comet-like career, are gold standard history. Why getting sacked was good for Machiavelli 2013-08-04T00:48:35Z His success was called comet-like, probably because he was born in the comet year 1811, also because his hair was long and his technique transcendentally brilliant. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z This dust may be forming a comet-like tail streaming behind the planet, that also blocks the starlight, like a dreadful plume of industrial pollution. Dust to Dust: A Disintegrating Exoplanet? 2012-05-22T11:45:07.697Z In this scenario, the gamma ray burst was caused by a large, comet-like object that fell into a neutron star. Scientists Develop Two Scenarios For Cosmic Christmas Explosion 2011-12-01T06:52:45Z It is balanced aloft and swung about several times before it quits the hands of Hercules, and comet-like flies through the air with all the velocity and force that can be communicated to it. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z His was a noble example of a well-balanced mind, without any of that startling, comet-like splendor, which has usually been considered as the very light in which genius lives and moves. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Here I obtained a perfectly free view down into the heart of the snowy, chanting throng of comet-like streamers, into which the body of the fall soon separates. My First Summer in the Sierra Soared with the wild red eye of its 236 headlight challenging the heavens themselves to stop it, with its comet-like tail of red fire streaming out full twenty feet behind it. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Both agreed that the comet-like flight of Medenham across their horizon was rapidly losing its significance. Cynthia's Chauffeur His period of brilliance up there was very comet-like. The Recipe for Diamonds The time runs lightning like—the 4th of March approaches with comet-like velocity. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 As I stood there, another slide started on the heights above timber, and with a far-off roar swept down in awful magnificence, 20 with a comet-like tail of snow-dust. Wild Life on the Rockies He laughed again at the two stiff, woodeny figures, the comet-like streak of fire above them. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Presently he heard wary footsteps ahead, and saw a figure rise up and go into the bows, marked by a faint, comet-like streak of light which must be the man's cigarette. Isle o' Dreams The flitter seemed to hurtle forward at comet-like speed. The Stars, My Brothers Every now and then one darted out into the full sunshine in chase of butterfly or beetle, its loose tail-feathers spreading out comet-like and waving in the clear air. Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal In Nature, presumably a vassal of the new god, though of course also plausibly rendering homage to the old, is reported a comet-like body, of Oct. The Book of the Damned And the tender sapling was rooted in the hope that long before it was a mature tree that comet-like Wayfarer would start,–the Thunder Bird would fly. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl The head of Hamersley’s horse is swept by the mustang’s tail, its long, white hair spread comet-like behind. The Lone Ranche At nine o'clock there was a display of fireworks on the park south of the White House, the rockets shooting comet-like across the clear, star-dotted sky, dropping showers of colored fire in their flight. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis By the time we had all got our breath and wiped the clover out of our eyes, horse and cart had vanished comet-like into the horizon, leaving a green trail behind. My Friend the Chauffeur It may have looked comet-like, but it moved 100 degrees while visible, or one hundred degrees in three-quarters of an hour. The Book of the Damned All that has gone before this time—the closing in of the vast cycle—has been, in a way, fragmentary, comet-like; the whole race of mankind has marched around the globe again and again. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul "Brecqhou," said the ancient mariner, as they swung past a long green island with beetling cliffs, and yawning caverns, and comet-like rushes of white foam among the chaos of rocks below. Pearl of Pearl Island He was no longer reverential, as with Beethoven, not doing homage but taking part, sharing almost in a creation, comet-like, of stars in the sky. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Here and there, in premonition of the eventual, the comet-like passage of streaming confetti was blocked by bare arms upflung to shield laughing faces; arms that flashed with splendid jewels on wrist and finger. The Common Law It was the last startling effulgence of his comet-like genius; for when the spring-flowers came again, he was gone from our earth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 I was my uncle's nephew, and my uncle was no less a person than Edward Ponderevo, whose comet-like transit of the financial heavens happened—it is now ten years ago! Tono Bungay In half a second there was a rattle, and a sort of comet-like rush through the air. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories Ere long, some noted singers and musicians dawned upon the platform: as these stars rose, the comet-like professor set. Villette These were days of quick promotion, of comet-like reputations and of great careers cut short. The Isle of Unrest This time the darkness was shot by comet-like flashes of light, and the exploding shells gave a strange pyrotechnic aspect to the battle in the air. The World Decision Of all the misfortunes as yet brought to pass By this comet-like Bill, with its long tail of speeches, The saddest and worst is the schism which, alas! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The French Revolution still continued, by its comet-like course, to dazzle, alarm, and disturb all Europe. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 There he saw fire-bales being hurled down from the walls--these, the comet-like apparitions he had seen from a distance--hurled, blazing, right into the brown of the mob. Darkness and Dawn Her comet-like scoot from obscurity to fame in the motion-picture sky had exhausted the excitement of that sky, and now she was ashamed of being a wage-earner, a mere actress, especially a movie actress. We Can't Have Everything Our comet-like visit must have seemed to him like a vision, and he watched us, with eyes full of tears, drive away out of his life. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters A gentle breeze gave to each spouting jet, a misty tail, comet-like in appearance to the admiring spectators. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Over the deserted plains it tore, comet-like, a meteor preceded by a streamer of light. The Auction Block It is when these comet-like intelligences sweep across the world's horizon that we hear of a Julius Caesar, a Napoleon, a Shakespeare. Ziska As she walked along the corridor and down the stairs, she seemed to smudge the place with colour, and, directly she entered the dining-hall, comet-like she drew all eyes upon her. The Getting of Wisdom We recalled many a cascade among the Alps, where from remote heights the small avalanches of snowy water form comet-like streamers of rarest beauty. See America First Somewhere in its midst appeared a dull star, at times brightening as if blown upon or drawn upwards in a comet-like trail. A Sappho of Green Springs I looked up at the sky and saw a comet-like trail crossing the zenith and extending westward—a fiery trail waning fainter and narrower each moment. Roads of Destiny As we passed along the High Street, comet-like, we left a long tail of fragrance behind us which caused the public to stop, sniffing in wonder. The Seven Poor Travellers A man travelling, comet-like, in splendour and nebulosity, his wild way; whom telescopic Patriotism may long watch, but, without higher mathematics, will not make out. The French Revolution Money poured in on him, fame poured in on him; he flashed, comet-like, through the world of literature, and he was more amused than interested by the stir he was making. Martin Eden |
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