constellation

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Related topics: Astronomy

1 HAa group of stars that forms a particular pattern and has a name 星座

a star in the constellation of Orion

猎户座的一颗恒星

2 a constellation of something literaryGROUP OF PEOPLEGROUP OF THINGS a group of people or things that are similar 一群〔相似的人〕；一系列〔相似的事物〕

a constellation of ideas

一系列想法

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a constellation of something• She opened her mouth, and out came a constellation of gorgeous sounds.• The term "sibling rivalry" refers to a constellation of feelings.• Eisenhower was a good soldier blessed with a constellation of better soldiers who made both his military and political victories possible.

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constellation• No, what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin.• In a moment I saw that they formed the outlines of the familiar constellations.• Individual constellations of these requirements are infinitely varied, of course.• His chest and cheek the most repulsive sight, a negative constellation of buckshot bruises.• Much the most celebrated object in the constellation is Omicron Ceti or Mira, the prototype long-period variable.• This hulking Atlas is carrying the universe upon his shoulders, a hollow orb ringed with the constellations of the celestial sphere.• In principle these constellations are knowable, and criminal behaviour fully predictable.

Origin constellation

(1300-1400) Old French Late Latin constellatio, from Latin com- ( → COM-) + stella “star”

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