apollo

[ə'pɔləu]

n. [希神]阿波罗(太阳神), 美男子

例句与用法:

A time Hera, Poseidon, Apollo, and all the other Olympians, except Hestia, surrounded him suddenly as he lay asleep on his couch and bound him with rawhide thongs, knotted into a hundred knots, so that he could not move.

有一次,赫拉、波塞冬、阿波罗和除了赫斯提外所有的奥林波斯神祗乘宙斯躺在床上熟睡之际一拥而上,用生牛皮绳把他捆绑起来并打上一百个绳结,使他动弹不得。

After Apollo, NASA's leaders turned their backs on the stars and planets. They delayed or canceled astronomy and space missions, gambling the agency's future on hardware like the space shuttle and space station.

阿波罗[探测外太空火箭]过后,美国宇航局的领导放弃了对星球的探测。他们搁置或取消了天文及太空任务,而将该局的前途赌在航天飞机及太空站一类的硬件上。

Apollo II blasted off at noon.

阿波罗2号於中午发射升空。

The Apollo program was not so much a scientific achievement as a technical accomplishment.

阿波罗计划与其说是一项科学成果,不如说是一项技术成就。