CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

天文学家

tiānwénxuéjiā

astronomer

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

astronomer

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 天文学家 actually appears in real sentences.

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天文学家们发现了一个几乎没有暗物质的星系。tiān wén xué jiā men fā xiàn le yí gè jī hū méi yǒu àn wù zhì dì xīng xì。

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has almost no dark matter.

几个世纪以来，天文学家相信银河构成了整个宇宙。哈勃第一个证明了通过望远镜看到的天空中的模糊花斑是其他星系，而不是银河系的遥远部分。jǐ gè shì jì yǐ lái， tiān wén xué jiā xiāng xìn yín hé gòu chéng le zhěng gè yǔ zhòu。 hā bó dì yí gè zhèng míng liǎo tōng guò wàng yuǎn jìng kàn dào de tiān kōng zhōng de mó hú huā bān shì qí tā xīng xì， ér bú shì yín hé xì de yáo yuǎn bù fèn。

For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way.

哥白尼是波兰的天文学家。gē bái ní shì bō lán de tiān wén xué jiā。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 天文学家.

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Directly before

的天文学家2

Directly after

天文学家相信1
天文学家们1
天文学家没有1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 天文学家

What does 天文学家 mean in Chinese?

天文学家 (tiānwénxuéjiā) means astronomer.

How do you pronounce 天文学家?

天文学家 is pronounced tiānwénxuéjiā.

Is 天文学家 an HSK word?

天文学家 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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