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词汇 star
释义 star
noun
uk /stɑːr/ us /stɑːr/

starnoun (OBJECT IN SPACE)


A2[ C ]
a very large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from the earth as a point of light in the sky at night: 恒星;星
Stars twinkled above them as they lay on the hill.他们躺在小山上,头顶繁星闪烁。
 
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Elaine looked up at the black, velvety sky studded with tiny, twinkling stars.伊莱恩抬头看着漆黑的、丝绒般的天空,闪闪繁星点缀其中。
The stars twinkled in the clear sky.星星在晴朗的夜空中闪烁。
We could see hundreds of stars in the clear desert sky.
The sky glimmered with stars.天空闪烁着点点星光。
Those seven bright stars make the shape of a saucepan.
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Astronomy
albedo
Andromeda
Aquarius
Aries
asteroid
galactic
galaxy
Gemini
geostationary
geosynchronous
nova
observatory
orbit
orbital
Orion
suborbital
substellar
sunspot
supergiant
supermassive

starnoun (PERFORMER)


A2[ C ]
a very famous, successful, and important person, especially a performer such as a musician, actor, or sports player: 明星
a rock/movie/football star摇滚歌星/影星/足球明星
Kids wanting to be stars come to Hollywood from all over America.想当明星的年轻人从美国各地来到好莱坞。
See also
co-starnoun
superstar
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

someone famous
celebrityThe magazine is all about the lives of celebrities.
celebWhich celeb recently spent $60,000 on an engagement ring?
slebUKShe was last spotted interviewing a minor sleb on the red carpet.
starHer ambition was always to become a movie star.
superstarRock superstar Elton John grew up working class in England.
legendHe became a legend in his own lifetime.
the stars of the silver screen电影明星
There will be many stars performing in the Royal Ballet's Gala Night, held in aid of children's charities.为资助儿童慈善机构而进行的皇家芭蕾舞剧团演出之夜将有众多明星加盟献艺。
She is one of the rising stars in the political firmament.她是政界冉冉升起的新星之一。
A number of stars from the world of music attended the event.
The 23-year-old tennis star looks unbeatable this season.
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Cinema & theatre: actors & performers
actor
actress
all-star
alum
belly dancer
chorus
headline
headliner
improviser
juvenile lead
leading lady
performer
scream queen
spear carrier
stage name
starlet
stooge
superstar
thespian
troupe

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Famous people
Entertainers in general

starnoun (SYMBOL)


A2[ C ]
a symbol with five or more points: 星形;星状物
star-shaped星形的
How many stars (= symbols showing quality) does this restaurant have?这家饭店是几星级的?
The teacher gave Tom a gold star (= a paper symbol rewarding good work) for his drawing.老师给了汤姆一颗金星,表扬他的画画得好。
 
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 two-star, three-star, etc.
C1
used to show how good a restaurant, hotel, etc. is: (用来表示餐馆、旅馆等的服务水平)两星/三星(等等)
The cheaper two-star hotels are also within the range of the budget traveller.廉价两星旅馆的价格也在平价旅行者的预算范围内。
a symbol made of metal or cloth worn by particular officials to show their rank: (表示军衔的)星章
a sheriff's star治安官的星章
a four-star general四星上将
 
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[ C ]
an asterisk (= a symbol *)星号 (*)
The US flag has 50 stars on it.
She was wearing a T-shirt with a star on the front.
She sent me that Christmas card with the star on it.
There are little stars all over her bedroom ceiling.
I bought some wallpaper with stars on it for the spare bedroom.
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Geometrical shapes
-cornered
circularly
congruently
conic
cuboid
cylindrically
lozenge
orbicular
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polytope
prism
quadrilateral
rectangle
rectangular
rhombus
three-dimensional
tubular

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Specific signs and symbols
Judgments and analyses
Punctuation

starnoun (LUCK)


[ C ]informal
any planet or other object in the sky thought of in astrology as influencing a person's luck: 星宿,星相,命星(占星术中认为影响个人运气的星体)
She was born under a lucky/an unlucky star.她生来命就好/不好。
See also
star sign
 stars[ plural ]informal
→ horoscope: 星相;星座
I always like to see what the stars say in the newspaper.我总是喜欢看报纸的星相版说些什么。
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Astrology
astrologer
astrological
astrology
horoscope
numerological
numerologically
numerologist
retrograde
sign of the zodiac
star sign
stargaze
stargazer
stargazing
transit
zodiac
zodiacal

Idiom


you're a star!
star
verb[ I+ prep, T ]
uk /stɑːr/ us /stɑːr/-rr-
B1
If a film, play, etc. stars someone, or if someone stars in a film, play, etc., they are the main actor in it: (电影、戏剧等)由(某人)担任主演;主演,担任主角
David Oyelowo starred in the movie "Selma".戴维•奥伊洛沃主演了电影《塞尔玛》。
Zusak's novel "The Book Thief" was turned into a movie starring Geoffrey Rush.苏萨克的小说《偷书贼》被改编成电影,由杰佛里•拉什领衔主演。
Compare
featureverb
Ingrid Bergman starred with Humphrey Bogart in the movie 'Casablanca'.英格丽‧褒曼同汉弗莱‧博加特联袂主演了电影《卡萨布兰卡》。
Last year he starred in the movie adaptation of Bill Cronshaw's best-selling novel.
The movie stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
The movie stars Kathleen Turner as the hard-boiled detective of Sarah Paretsky's novel.
Russell Crowe stars as a grief-stricken avenger on the trail of his family's killers.罗素·克劳饰演一名悲痛欲绝的复仇者,追踪杀害其家人的凶手。
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Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing
act out
am-dram
amateur theater
appearance
blocking
camp it up
chew
debut
enact
improvise
offstage
portrayal
re-enact
recreation
rep
restage
stage business
stage fright
understudy
unperformable
star
adjective[ before noun ]
 informaluk /stɑːr/ us /stɑːr/
C1
best or most important: 最好的,最出色的;最重要的
Natalie is, without a doubt, the star student in this year's ballet class.毫无疑问,纳塔莉是今年芭蕾班中最出色的学员。
This afternoon the prosecution will call its star witness.今天下午控方将传召其最重要的证人。
Compare
leading
stellar
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Extremely good
admirable
amazing
amazingly
ask for someone
award-winning
first-rate
five-star
gourmet
greatness
have no parallelphrase
par excellence
sensational
shining
soar
sock
splendid
splendidly
stellar
superiority
wonderfully
-star
suffix
uk / -stɑːr/ us / -stɑːr/
a measurement of quality, usually in numbers from one to five with one being the lowest: (表示质量等级,一般为一至五星)…星级
A three-star hotel is better than a two-star.三星级酒店比二星的要好。
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Quality and standard
acid test
bar
benchmark
build
build quality
cachet
class
five-star
gilt-edged
ideal
litmus test
multi-levelled
quality control
random sampling
rank
rate
set the bar high/lowidiom
starred
status
sub-level

star | American Dictionary


star
noun[ C ]
us/stɑr/

starnoun[C] (OBJECT IN SPACE)


a large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from earth as a point of light in the sky at night:
Stars twinkled in the night sky.

starnoun[C] (SHAPE)


a shape having four or more pointed parts coming out from a center at equal distances:
The children were cutting stars out of paper to make decorations.
A star is sometimes used as a symbol of quality:
The Times gave this restaurant three stars.
A star is also used as a symbol of rank or position:
a four-star general
A star is also an asterisk (= the symbol *).

starnoun[C] (PERFORMER)


a famous and successful person, esp. a performer such as a musician, actor, or sports player:
a rock/movie/basketball star
A star is also someone who is especially good at something:
Janet is our star math student.
star
verb[ I/T ]
us/stɑr/-rr-

starverb[I/T] (PERFORM)


to be one of the most important performers in a show:
[ I ]He has starred in several recent movies.
[ T ]The school play stars children in the seventh and eighth grades.

star | Business English


star
noun[ C ]
uk /stɑːr/us
a symbol with four or more points. A system of stars is used to show someone's official opinion of the quality of a product or place:
Vehicles with one star are four times more likely to roll over in a crash than vehicles with five stars.
Organizations are awarded star ratings to indicate the effectiveness of their safety programmes.
someone or something that is the best in a group, an organization, etc.:
Business stars were joined by scores of private investors, who snapped up shares in quoted operators.
He's now one of the rising stars of the company.
MARKETING
in the Boston Matrix, a product or company with a large share in a market that is growing very fast:
If a star can maintain its large market share, it will become a cash cow when the market growth rate declines.
See also
Boston Matrix
Compare
cash cow
dog
question mark
 -star
used to show someone's official opinion of the quality of a place, especially a hotel or restaurant. One-star is the lowest and five-star is the highest:
five-star accommodation
a four-star hotel
 star dot star
IT
the set of symbols (*.*) that matches all DOS and Windows file names. The first star means "all files", and the second star means "all extensions".
star
adjective[ before noun ]
 informaluk /stɑːr/us
better or more important than others:
star banker/manager/performerThe consumer sector stands out as a star performer in the country's economy.

Examples of star


star
As stars cool, so the heavier elements are formed.
Words are as the stars of heaven, fitted to illumine the yet dark places of creation.
The lecturer who stares out of the window, for example, is unlikely to convey to students much personal interest in their learning.
The stars can be observed with a refracting telescope or a reflecting telescope, but are the same stars.
When you get older it is embarrassing because people are staring at you.
The white men are like the stars over your heads.
He then stares very intently at the growing flames.
He then moves on to a discussion of the second cause of the stars' heat.
If we could observe several different solar systems around other stars, the resulting constants would vary.
Even so, the implications of this theory for old stars and other massive bodies were not generally realized until the 1960s.
However, they would differ on details like the distribution of stars and, even more, on what was on the covers of their magazines.
Ejaculatory trajectories may be seen leading to these stars.
First, when stars of at least 0.4 solar masses exhaust their supply of hydrogen, their outer layers expand to form a red giant.
None of which is to claim that stars are alive, a common misinterpretation of such an eclectic stance.
Biting her lips and staring firmly at the finish line indicate her resilience.
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Collocations withstar


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background star
With high enough temporal resolution even the angular size of the backgroundstar can be determined.
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big star
It had no great bigstar in it, though there was a wonderful cast.
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bright star
This is the brightstar shining in that darkness.
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