Meteor

(noun.) a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.

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• The Electric Light is the brightest meteor that has flashed across the horizon of promise during the present century. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The golden secretary darted through the room like a meteor with a dashing French-woman who carpeted the floor with her pink satin train. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The time occupied by the apparition of these meteors was comparatively short; suddenly the three mock suns united in one, and plunged into the sea. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They were not meteors; they were too low. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Then the moons come; the mysterious, magic moons of Mars, hurtling like monster meteors low across the face of the planet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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