orbit

noun

1. （天体等运行的）轨道
   a curved path followed by a planet or an object as it moves around another planet, star, moon, etc.
   1. the earth's orbit around the sun
      地球环绕太阳的轨道
   2. a space station in orbit round the moon
      绕月球运行的一个航天站
   3. A new satellite has been put into orbit around the earth.
      一颗新的人造卫星被送上了环绕地球的轨道。
2. （人、组织等的）影响范围，势力范围
   an area that a particular person, organization, etc. deals with or is able to influence
   1. to come/fall/be within sb's orbit
      进入 / 落入 / 属于某人的势力范围

verb

1. 沿轨道运行；围绕…运动
   to move in an orbit (= a curved path) around a much larger object, especially a planet, star, etc.
   1. The earth takes a year to orbit the sun.
      地球绕太阳一周要一年的时间。

1. N-COUNT （天体等运行的）轨道
   An orbit is the curved path in space that is followed by an object going round and round a planet, moon, or star.
   1. Mars and Earth have orbits which change with time...
      火星与地球的运行轨道随着时间而变化。
   2. The planet is probably in orbit around a small star.
      这颗行星可能正环绕着一颗小恒星运行。
2. VERB 环绕…的轨道运行
   If something such as a satellite orbits a planet, moon, or sun, it moves around it in a continuous, curving path.
   1. In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first satellite to orbit the earth.
      1957年，苏联发射了第一颗绕地卫星。
3. N-SING （影响所及的）范围，领域，圈子
   The orbit of a particular person, group, or institution is the area over which they have influence.
   1. In the late 1970s Laos fell within the orbit of Vietnam and the Soviet Union.
      20世纪70年代末，老挝被纳入了越南和苏联的势力范围。

1. The astronauts will attach a motor that will boost the satellite into its proper orbit
   宇航员们将安装一个发动机，以推动卫星进入正常运行轨道。
2. Ground controllers will then fire the booster, sending the satellite into its proper orbit.
   然后地面控制人员将会发射推进器，把卫星送入正常轨道。
3. Astronauts will make a final attempt today to rescue a communications satellite from its useless orbit
   今天宇航员将会做最后一次尝试，力图把一颗通信卫星从无效的轨道上抢救下来。
4. The orbit of this comet intersects the orbit of the Earth
   这颗彗星的轨道与地球的轨道交叉。
5. Mars and Earth have orbits which change with time
   火星与地球的运行轨道随着时间而变化。
6. The planet is probably in orbit around a small star.
   这颗行星可能正环绕着一颗小恒星运行。
7. In the late 1970s Laos fell within the orbit of Vietnam and the Soviet Union.
   20世纪70年代末，老挝被纳入了越南和苏联的势力范围。
8. All the planets orbit the Sun in roughly the same plane, round its equator.
   所有的行星大致在同一平面上绕太阳赤道运转。
9. Yet bigger satellites will be sent up into orbit
   更为大型的卫星将被送入轨道。
10. We can draw the earth's orbit round the sun.
    我们可以画出地球绕太阳运行的轨迹。
11. The satellite was launched into orbit around the moon.
    卫星被射入环绕月球的轨道。
12. When the boosters have helped to lift a space station into orbit, they separate from it and return to the earth.
    助推火箭把太空站推入轨道后，就自行脱落返回地球。
13. The satellite is now in orbit.
    卫星已进入轨道。
14. John was afraid his father would go into orbit when he found out about the car accident.
    约翰担心父亲知道那起车祸后会暴跳如雷。
15. They put a weather satellite into orbit about the earth.
    他们把一颗气象卫星送入环绕地球的轨道。
16. The war is a gigantic cosmic drama, embracing every quarter of the globe and the whole orbit of man's life.
    战争是一幕巨大而包罗万象的戏，涉及地球上每个角落和人类生活的各个领域。
17. Our team has gone into orbit.
    我们队已经步入正轨。
18. This is India's first space mission beyond the Earth's orbit.
    这是印度的第一次超越地球轨道的太空任务。
19. The gas methane has been found both by spacecraft in orbit and by telescopes from earth.
    天然气甲烷都被在轨道中的宇宙飞船和地球上的望远镜所发现。
20. China has also put astronauts into Earth orbit and conducted spacewalks.
    中国还把航天员送到了地球轨道，并完成了空间行走。
21. Most satellites handle this problem by being blasted into orbit around the planet.
    我们通过将大多数卫星送至行星运行的轨道，从而解决了这一问题。
22. We have already worked out the conditions for a circular orbit.
    我们已经算出了圆轨道的条件。
23. They are in exactly the same orbit, but different satellites.
    他们完全在，同一条轨道中，但是在不同的卫星中。
24. The space shuttle will orbit a weather satellite.
    航天飞机将把一个气象卫星送入运行轨道。
25. Most asteroids can be found in an asteroid belt between Marsand Jupiter were they orbit the sun.
    在火星和木星之间的小行星带上被发现的大部分小行星都绕太阳运行。
26. An approach for spacecraft autonomous rendezvous in an elliptical orbit without orbit information is developed.
    提出了一种在缺少绝对轨道信息时的航天器椭圆轨道自主交会方法。
27. Let us test kepler's third law for the orbit of Uranus compared with that of earth.
    让我们比较天王星和地球的轨道，来检验一下开普勒第三定律。
28. Communications satellites, for example, have a geostationary orbit.
    比如，通讯卫星有一个对地静止轨道。
29. First, we know that the planets all orbit close to the earth's orbital plane, the ecliptic.
    首先，我们知道所有行星的轨道都很靠近地球的轨道平面――黄道面。
30. An autonomous satellite attitude and orbit determination system based on the stellar refraction measurement is described.
    研究了基于星光折射量测进行自主确定卫星姿态及轨道的方法。