celestial

英 [s?'lest??l] 美[s?'l?st??l]

反義詞

TEM8GRETOEFL低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

1. ceiling => celestial.
2. ceiling => Latin caelum "heaven, sky" => cel- / cael- + -estial => celestial.

celestial 天空的

來(lái)自拉丁詞caelum, 天空，最終來(lái)自PIE*kaid,*skai, 照耀，明亮，詞源同candle, shine.

celestial (adj.): late 14c., "pertaining to heaven," from Old French celestial "celestial, heavenly, sky-blue," from Latin caelestis "heavenly, pertaining to the sky," from caelum "heaven, sky; abode of the gods; climate," which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *kaid-slo-, perhaps from a root also found in Germanic and Baltic meaning "bright, clear" (compare Lithuanian skaidrus "shining, clear;" Old English hador, German heiter "clear, shining, cloudless," Old Norse heie "clear sky").

The Latin word is the source of the usual word for "sky" in most of the Romance languages, such as French ciel, Spanish cielo, Italian cielo. General sense of "heavenly, very delightful" in English is from early 15c.

3. In the process of their careful watching and recording the celestial movements the Chinese provided valuable and interesting information for succeeding generations.: 古代中國(guó)人在仔細(xì)觀察、認(rèn)真記錄天體運(yùn)動(dòng)的過(guò)程里，為后代留下了寶貴而又有趣的資料。

4. Gravity governs the motions of celestial bodies.: 萬(wàn)有引力控制著天體的運(yùn)動(dòng)。

5. Celestial poles are situated directly over the earth's geographical poles.: 天極直接位于地球的地理極上面.