| 釋義 |
satellite /'saetalait; '8LlI,sil/ n 1 comparatively small body moving in orbit round a planet; moon; artificial object, eg a spacecraft, put in orbit round a celestial body: 蘭星; 人造衛(wèi)星： com.muni-'cations ~, for relaying back to the earth telephone messages, radio and TV signals. 通信衛(wèi)星。 2 (fig, often attrib) person, state, depending upon and taking the lead from another. (喻，常作形容用法) 追隨者; 附庸國(guó)。 '~ town, one built to take the excess population of another. 衛(wèi)星城鎮(zhèn) (用以疏散大城市之人口者) 。 |