2017年7月10日 星期一

phenom, space shuttle astronauts, cosmonaut, taikonaut

The New York Yankees phenom finished this year’s competition with a whopping 47 homers.


Judge continued his unbelievable 2017 season, becoming the fourth Yankee to win the Home Run Derby.
USATODAY.COM|作者:STEVE GARDNER

It took a long time for a taikonaut to join the list of cosmonauts and astronauts who have gone into orbit around Earth and (in a few cases) ventured beyond that, to the Moon. But China has now arrived as a space power, and one mark of this has been the International Astronautical Federation's decision to hold its 64th congress in Beijing http://econ.st/191TteS


Computer-generated song phenom gets 'her' own weekly radio show(05/04)



phenom

(fĭ-nŏm') pronunciation
n. Slang
A phenomenon, especially a remarkable or outstanding person.


astronaut
Pronunciation: /ˈastrənɔːt/
noun


  • a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.



Derivatives





astronautical


adjective

Origin:

1920s: from astro-, on the pattern of aeronaut and aquanaut

Etymology

The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih (Mandarin: (trad.) / (simpl.) Zhào Lǐyù) from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media based on Mandarin (太空 tàikōng), space. (Source: Mail & Guardian) This follows the pattern established by the terms astronaut and cosmonaut (which share the -naut suffix) for having different terms for space workers denoting country of origin.

Noun

taikonaut (plural taikonauts)
A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese astronaut.  [quotations ▼]

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