galaxy

參見：Galaxy

英語

The spiral galaxy NGC 1672

其他形式

(銀河)： Galaxy

詞源

源自中古英語 galaxye、galaxie，源自古法語 galaxie，源自拉丁語 galaxias，源自古希臘語 γαλαξίας (galaxías, 「銀河系」)，源自γάλα (gála, 「奶」)。

發音

(英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɡaləksi/
(美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɡæləksi/
（美國）音頻： (檔案)

名詞

galaxy (複數 galaxies)

(現罕用) 銀河系（自14世紀）
- 1633, 約翰·多恩, Sapho to Philænis:
  So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
星系（自19世紀）
(比喻義) 群星，群星薈萃（顯赫的人物組成的團隊等）
(時尚，設計) 星系圖案，星系圖樣（黑色背景下多種顏色混合構成的圖案）
- 2016, Reyna Young, Hanover Falls‎^[1]，第 42 頁:
  Her walls and ceiling were covered with galaxy wallpaper; it was like stepping into space.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 2017, Rebekah L. Purdy, Incriminating Dating‎^[2]:
  Her nerdy glasses sat perched on her face, and she wore a May the Force Be With You T-shirt with a black lace skirt, galaxy leggings, and a pair of white Star Wars Vans.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 2018, Isabel Scheck, Survival‎^[3]，第 15 頁:
  She hurriedly said that she found an^[sic] faded galaxy blanket. She loved galaxy patterned things.
  （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

近義詞

(天文學)： G (縮寫)、star city、trichiliocosm (佛教)

下義詞

衍生詞彙

派生語彙

→ 斯瓦希里語: galaksi

動詞

galaxy (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 galaxies，現在分詞 galaxying，一般過去時及過去分詞 galaxied)

給...布置星系，使...充滿星系
- 1836, anonymous, 「The Victim Bride: A Tale of Monadnock」 in The Philadelphia Visiter, volume 1, number 14, page 53:
  […] how he struggled at one time like a desperate man fiercly ^[sic] grappling with his mortal foe, and at another like a sanguine lover and noble minded youth, as the cliffy rocks impeded his progress, or dimmed the view he had caught of an aperture, through which the galaxied firmament was seen in its purity and holiness glowing with diamonds and saphires; […]
- 1838, John Edmund Reade, Italy: a poem, in six parts, page 138:
  In dazzling light expands the mighty Dome:
  Mirror of Heaven,—but Heaven when she doth wear
  All galaxied with Stars her flashing hair!
- 2018, Adrian G. R. Scott, 「A Canticle to Creatureliness」 in A Night Sea Journey:
  To be dwarfed in a galaxied sky,
  doming, arcing, and revolving over
  The little space I briefly occupy.
(古舊) 組成發亮的整體
- 1702, Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, book 3, part 4 (「Remains: or, Shorter Accounts of Sundry Divines」), chapter 1 (「Remains of the Firſt Claſſis」), page 213:
  Let all their Vertues then be Galaxied into this one indiſtinct Luſtre, they were Faithful Servants of Chriſt, and Sufferers for their being ſo.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, 「Review of New Books」 in Graham’s Magazine, volume 18, number 5, page 249:
  The brilliancies on one page of Lalla Roohk ^[sic] would have sufficed to establish that very reputation which has been in a great measure self-dimned by the galaxied lustre of the entire book.
- 1844, Horace Smith, Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution, volume 1, page 172:
  How dazzling must their brightness be when they are galaxied in a single bosom!

參考資料

galaxy在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en