燦若星辰：star的用法小析

When you are looking at the stars, please put the brightest star in the night sky as my soul.

——Transformer Ⅳ

仰望星空的時候，在滿天的星辰裏，你可以把其中的一顆看作我的靈魂。

——《變形金剛4》

一、關於star，你應該知道的用法有

n.

1.星，恆星 [C] a large ball of burning gas in space that we see as a point of light in the sky at night

They reported the appearance of a new star.

他們報道出現了一顆新星。

2.星形物；星狀物 [C] an object, a decoration, a mark, etc., usually with nine or one points, whose shape represents a star

Press star, you can open the door.

按星形圖案，你能打開門。

3.星級 [C] a mark that represents a star and tells you how good sth is, especially a hotel or restaurant

While in Taipei, he stayed at a four star hotel.

他在臺北逗留期間住在一家四星級旅館。

4.明星 [C] a famous and excellent singer, performer, sports player

The judge is said to have an illicit love affair with a film star.

據說那個法官與一個電影明星有段風流韻事。

5.星象 [C] a description of what sb thinks is going to happen to sb in the future, based on the position of the stars and planets when they were born

From the night stars, he deduced that it would be windy.

夜觀星象，他推斷出將要颳風。

v.

1.（由某人）主演 [I,T] to have the main parts in a film / movie, play, etc

The new play stars three of Britain's best actors.

這部新戲由英國最出色的三位演員主演。

2.爲（某物）標上星號 [T] to put a symbol shaped like a star (called an asterisk ) next to a word, etc. in order to make people notice it

Please star the room, I will have a baby soon.

請用星狀物裝飾房間，我很快要有一個孩子了。

二、含有star的常見短語

evening star

n. 晚星

film star

電影明星,影星

north star

n.[天]北極星

shooting star

n. 流星 隕石

star shell

n. 照明彈

三、接下來，做個填詞遊戲吧

The _____ seemed to twinkle hope to us.

這顆星星似乎向我們閃爍希望。