| 单词 | orb |
| 例句 | orb noun •the hallway features a display of luminous orbs suspended at various lengths from the ceiling:sphere, globe, ball | spheroid, spherule | circle.WORD NOTE orbs Orbs reeks of mawkish adolescent poetry in almost every one of its surviving usages, and it is now obsolete in its previously strong astronomical sense—those concentric hollow spheres we once believed surrounded the earth and carried the planets and stars with them in their revolutions. It is never to be used as a synonym for eyes, particularly not in any attempts at feminine flattery unless hilarity is the desired result. Eyes are eyes. Circular and spherical forms are properly orbs, but there's rarely a compelling reason to call them such. — ZSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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