shooting star

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Whether artificial or not, he said, the object was bigger than an ordinary shooting star.
不管是不是人造物體，他說，這個東西比一般的流星要大。
A year later, Hergé deleted the drawing of the Jews of his own accord, when the serialised “The Shooting Star” became an album.
一年之后，埃爾熱自行刪去對猶太人的描寫，當時，連載的“神秘流星”已經(jīng)出書。
It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.
一開始像是顆流星，可接著那軌跡越來越亮，變成兩個光點，就像是火箭噴出的氣流，那個東西一點沒出聲就著落了。

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a meteor (= a piece of rock from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the earth's atmosphere)

A shooting star is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the Earth's atmosphere from space, and is seen from earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky.