Leonids

Leonids

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• n.【天】狮子座流星
• 网络狮子座流星群；狮子座流星雨；是狮子座的流星群

词形变化

复数：Leonids  复数：Leonides  

英汉解释

n.	1. 【天】狮子座流星

英英解释

n.	1. a member of an annual meteor shower that reaches its maximum on or about November 17

例句

Astronomers predict that this year's Leonids will put on an excellent show tonight. Try to get out of the city and see them.

天文学家预测今晚狮子座流星雨将会很盛大，试着走出城市去看看吧。

However, the 1966 Leonids meteor shower was a spectacular historic event that produced hundreds of thousands of meteor every hour.

然而，1966年的狮子座流星雨每小时产生的成千上万颗流星。

Every 33 years, the Leonids put on a truly spectacular display of more than a thousand meteors per hour in what is known as a meteor storm.

狮子座每隔33年就展示一场蔚为壮观的流星雨，速率达到每小时超过1000颗流星，因而又被叫做“流星风暴”。

In other years, however, the Leonids can suddenly erupt in spectacular meteor storms, with rates of more than a thousand meteors an hour.

然而在另一些年份，狮子座流星群可以突然暴风骤雨般在每小时爆发出远远超过一千颗以上的流星。

The Leonids are minute dust particles shed by Comet Tempel-Tuttle.

狮子座流星是由坦普尔·塔特尔彗星释放的微小尘粒构成。

It is the most noteworthy Leonids meteor shower until now this year.

这是今年迄今为止最为壮观的流星雨。

Meteorites are not associated with annual meteor showers such as the Perseids and the Leonids.

陨石是不相关的年度流星雨，如英仙座流星雨和狮子座流星雨。

That's because the trail of comet debris that creates the Leonids is uneven.

这是由于彗星残片的不均匀分布导致了狮子座流星群的反常。

Visual Observations of 1998 Leonids in Delingha and Their Preliminary Analysis

1998年德令哈狮子座流星雨目视观测及初步分析