| 词汇 | astronomy |
| 词源 | astronomy. Astronomy comes from a Greek word meaning “star arranging, or arrangement of the stars,” and was first ap- plied to the work of men charting the heavens. It came into En- glish, via Latin, early in the 13th century, meaning at first the whole field of astrology, not the modern science of astronomy. |
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