in/into orbit• The body in orbit is thus slowed down slightly.• The system is not expected to leak while the craft is in orbit and the hydraulics are not in use.• Weight was slowly ebbing; the rockets were being throttled back as the shipeased itself into orbit.• The station, like any other object in orbit, lost energy through radiating it into space as infra-redelectromagneticradiation.• Once in orbit, you are precisely half way to having enough energy to escape from Earth.• Then the penalty paid in orbitmatching with Mars and Phobos would be much smaller.• The programmes are beamed from Anik C, a telecommunications satellite that went into orbit at the end of last year.
Originorbit2
(1500-1600)Latinorbita“wheel-track”, probably from orbis; → ORB
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ORBIT | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤circular, elliptical圓形/橢圓形軌道▸➤eccentric偏心軌道◇Mercury's orbit is fairly eccentric.水星軌道的離心率相當高。➤high, low高空/低空軌道▸➤stable固定軌道▸➤planetary行星的軌道▸➤Earth地球軌道VERB + ORBIT➤enter, go into進入軌道▸➤reach到達軌道▸➤put sth into, send sth into將⋯送入軌道▸➤complete, make繞軌道運行◇The spaceship made an orbit of the moon.宇宙飛船繞月球軌道運行了一週。➤leave離開軌道PREPOSITION➤in orbit在軌道上◇The satellite will remain in orbit for several years.這顆衞星將在軌道上運行數年。➤orbit around, orbit round (especially BrE) 繞⋯的軌道◇the moon's orbit around the earth月球環繞地球運行的軌道