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astronaut
宇航员;航天员;太空人
a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft
- 1.
A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
宇宙飞船或其他航天器上飞出地球大气层的机组人员,或受过训练执行该任务的人
- 2.
a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
接受过航天器旅行训练的人
宇宙飞船或其他航天器上飞出地球大气层的机组人员,或受过训练执行该任务的人;接受过航天器旅行训练的人;太空旅行者;宇航员;[法] 美国太空人
In use
My cousin dreams of becoming an astronaut and training at a space center.
The astronaut carefully checked the equipment before stepping into the rocket.
Many astronauts spend months learning how to live in zero gravity.
the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts
become an astronaut
become 后接表示职业的可数名词单数时,需用 a/an;此结构表示成为某职业或身份。
He hopes to become an astronaut someday.
他希望有一天成为一名宇航员。
work as an astronaut
用介词 as 表示身份或职位;常见搭配动词有 work、serve、train 等。
She works as an astronaut.
她担任宇航员。
Connections
Collocations
- astronaut candidate
- 宇航员候选人
- Hundreds of people apply to be astronaut candidates every year.每年有数百人申请成为宇航员候选人。
- astronaut training
- 宇航员训练
- She completed two years of astronaut training before her first mission.她在首次任务之前完成了两年的宇航员训练。
- astronaut suit
- 宇航服
- An astronaut suit is heavy because it contains life-support equipment.宇航服很重,因为它包含生命支持设备。
- astronaut crew
- 宇航员乘组
- The astronaut crew practiced the emergency procedures many times before launch.宇航员乘组在发射前多次练习应急程序。
- former astronaut
- 前宇航员
- A former astronaut is now the director of the space agency.一位前宇航员现在担任航天局局长。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 astronaut 里的 astro 当作宇航员名字阿斯特罗,他正在太空漫步。
Context & Register
语域:neutral 常见场景:news articles、science documentaries、daily conversation “astronaut”通常用于新闻报道、科普和日常对话,属于标准中性词汇,没有明显的正式或非正式色彩。
Pronunciation & Spelling
在美式发音中,'astronaut' 的最后音节为 /nɑt/,和 'not' 的发音相同。列表中的 'cosmonaut'、'aquanaut' 的 '-naut' 通常读作 /nɔːt/,类似于 'naught',因此不押韵;'nautical' 和 'nautilus' 的开头 'nau' 读作 /nɔː/,也区别于 /nɑ/。'astronomy' 虽然拼写以 'astro' 开头,但重音和元音都不同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1,建议结合例句记忆,而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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