meteorites是什么意思？

meteorites

英['mi:tɪəraɪts] 美['mitɪəraɪts]

• n. 陨星( meteorite的名词复数 )；

例句

• Small meteorites have left impact craters all over the planet’s surface. 这个行星的表面布满了小块陨石留下的撞击坑。
• Cheryl's car insurance doesn't cover damage from meteorites. 谢丽尔的新车保险不包括来自陨石的损害.
• Small meteorites have left impact craters all over the planet's surface. 这个行星的表面布满了小块陨石留下的撞击坑.
• The meteorites struck the earth with hypervelocity impacts. 流星以超高速撞击力冲击地球.
• Thousands of meteorites penetrate Earth's atmosphere and fall harmlessly to the ground each year. 每年,几千块陨石穿过地球大气,掉到地面上,并不会造成什么伤害.
• One theory about the existence of extraterrestrial life rests on the presence of carbon compounds in meteorites. 地球外存在生命的理论是基于陨星上存在碳化合物质这一事实的.
• ...a shower of meteorites. 一阵流星雨

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  陨石;陨星;陨铁
  A meteorite is a large piece of rock or metal from space that has landed on Earth.