astronaut
astronaut 英 [ˈæstrənɔ:t] 美 [ˈæstrəˌnɔt]
n. 宇航员，航天员；
名词复数:astronauts
- An astronaut is someone who travels in space. While the term was once reserved for military-trained professionals, recent accessibility of space travel has seen the term astronaut now used to refer to anyone traveling in a spacecraft, including civilians.
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- n. 宇航员，航天员；
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1. The rocket send the astronaut into space.
这火箭把宇航员送入太空.
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2. Yes, I have wanted to be an astronaut.
是的，我想过成为一个宇航员。
- astronaut (n.) "space-traveler," 1929 in scientific speculation, popularized from 1961 by U.S. space program, from astro- "star" + nautes "sailor," from PIE root *nau- "boat." French astronautique (adj.) had been coined 1927 by "J.H. Rosny," pen name of Belgian-born science fiction writer Joseph Henri Honoré Boex, on model of aéronautique, and Astronaut was used in 1880 as the name of a fictional spaceship by English writer Percy Greg in "Across the Zodiac."
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