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a curved path followed by a planet or an object as it moves around another planet, star, moon, etc. （天体等运行的）轨道 the earth’s orbit around the sun 地球环绕太阳的轨道 - in orbit
a space station in orbit around the moon 环绕月球运行的空间站 - into orbit
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。
Extra ExamplesTopics Spaceb2The spaceship made an orbit of the moon. 宇宙飞船绕月球轨道运行了一周。 Mercury follows an elliptical orbit. 水星遵循椭圆轨道。 He spent eleven months in orbit. 他在太空待了十一个月。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- circular
- elliptical
- eccentric
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- enter
- go into
- reach
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- in orbit
- orbit around
- orbit round
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an area that a particular person, organization, etc. deals with or is able to influence （人、组织等的）影响范围，势力范围 - within somebody's orbit
to come/fall/be within somebody’s orbit 进入／落入／属于某人的势力范围
- within somebody's orbit
Word Originmid 16th cent. (referring to the eye socket): from Latin orbita ‘course, track’ (in medieval Latin ‘eye socket’), feminine of orbitus ‘circular’, from orbis ‘ring’.