Venus
/ˈviːnəs/1
- Roman Mythology a goddess, worshipped as the goddess of love in classical Rome though apparently a spirit of kitchen gardens in earlier times. Greek equivalent APHRODITE【罗马神话】维纳斯（古罗马爱的女神, 但更早时为家庭菜园神, 相当于希腊神话中的APHRODITE）。
- ORIGIN: Latin.
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- as noun a Venus chiefly poetic/literary a beautiful woman〈主诗/文〉美女。
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- Astronomy the second planet from the sun in the solar system, the brightest celestial object after the sun and moon and frequently appearing in the twilight sky as the evening or morning star【天文】金星, 太白星。
- Venus orbits between Mercury and the earth at an average distance of 108 million km from the sun. It is almost equal in size to the earth, with a diameter of 12,104 km, and shows phases similar to the moon. The planet is completely covered by clouds consisting chiefly of sulphuric acid droplets, and no surface detail can be seen by telescope. There is a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, which traps the heat of the sun by the greenhouse effect to produce a surface temperature of 460℃. The planet has no natural satellite.
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- （亦作venus, Venus shell, 或〈主美〉Venus clam）a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell帘蛤。
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- Venus, Venerupis, and other genera, family Veneridae.帘蛤属、蛤仔属及其他属, 帘蛤科。
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