• n. 軌道；眼眶；勢力范圍；生活常規
• vi. 盤旋；繞軌道運行
• vt. 繞…軌道而行

來自拉丁語orbis,圈，環，球體，詞源同orb.引申詞義軌道。

orbit

orbit: [16] Orbit comes from Latin orbita. This was a derivative of the noun orbis, which originally meant ‘circle, disc’. It was applied metaphorically to a number of circular things, including the ‘circular path of a satellite’ (from which the main meaning of orbit comes) and also the ‘eye socket’, and eventually came to be applied to ‘spheres’ as well as ‘circles’ – whence English orb [16].
=> orb

orbit (n.)

late 14c., "the eye socket," from Old French orbite or directly from Medieval Latin orbita, transferred use of Latin orbita "wheel track, beaten path, rut, course, orbit" (see orb). Astronomical sense first recorded 1690s in English; it was in classical Latin, revived in Gerard of Cremona's translation of Avicenna. The Old English word for "eye socket" was eaghring.

orbit (v.)

1946, from orbit (n.). Related: Orbited; orbiting.

1. The planet is probably in orbit around a small star.

這顆行星可能正環繞著一顆小恒星運行。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Yet bigger satellites will be sent up into orbit.

更為大型的衛星將被送入軌道。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The orbit of this comet intersects the orbit of the Earth.

這顆彗星的軌道與地球的軌道交叉。

來自柯林斯例句

4. the earth's orbit around the sun

地球環繞太陽的軌道

來自《權威詞典》

5. The space rocket was launched and went into orbit.

宇宙火箭發射后進入軌道.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》