horoscope
horoscope 英 [ˈhɒrəskəʊp] 美 [ˈhɔrəskoʊp]
n. 占星术;星象;十二宫图
名词复数:horoscopes
- You can usually read your daily horoscope in the local newspaper. A horoscope is a forecast of your future based on the month in which you were born.
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- n. 占星术;星象;十二宫图
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1. Today my horoscope says that I should start a fitness regime.
今天,按照占星术的说法,我应该开始健康养生计划。
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2. horoscope writers may be excited by alignments, Morrison said. But "the reality is that alignments are of no interest to science.
莫里森说只有占星术作家们才会关注这种连线,而“真实情况是,这对科学界来说没什么特别的,那代表不了什么。”
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3. This is why our word today, “horoscope” shows up pretty early in the history of English.
正因如此,我们今天要讨论的词,horoscope(星座,占星术)在英语历史上出现得非常早。
- horoscope (n.) "observation or diagram of the heavens, showing the positions of planets, on any given day, used by astrologers," mid-16c., from Middle French horoscope, from Latin horoscopum/horoscopus, from Greek horoskopos "nativity, horoscope," also "one who casts a horoscope, one who observes the hour of a birth," from hora "hour; season; period of time" (see hour) + skopos "watcher; what is watched" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe").
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