shooting star

英 [ˌʃuːtɪŋ ˈstɑː(r)]

美 [ˌʃuːtɪŋ ˈstɑːr]

n. 流星

牛津词典

noun

流星
a small meteor (= a piece of rock in outer space) that travels very fast and burns with a bright light as it enters the earth's atmosphere

流星
Ashooting staris a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the earth's atmosphere from space, and is seen from earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky.

noun

a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
Synonym:meteor

Based on its movement it could have been a shooting star rather than a fixed star.
基于它的运动，它应该是一颗流星，而不是恒星。
Your wish will be granted upon a shooting star.
向流星许愿会让你梦想成真的。
When she was not even born yet, a shooting star hit her grandma's back yard.
她还没出生的时候，一颗彗星（的碎片）掉在她祖母的后院。
Maybe someday he become a shooting star in the sky.
可能他某天成为一个闪亮的星在天空。
It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.
一开始像是颗流星，可接着那轨迹越来越亮，变成两个光点，就像是火箭喷出的气流，那个东西一点没出声就着落了。
But how was making Sleepy Hollow different from shooting Star Wars?
但是如何让《沉睡谷》的拍摄与《星球大战》的拍摄不同呢？
Inspiration is just a shooting star, while the will power is the eternal sun.
灵感只是一颗流星，毅力才是永恒的太阳。
It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place
最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。
'We saw a very bright shooting star.' —'Did you really? '
“我们看到了一颗很明亮的流星。”——“真的吗？”
Local authorities determined it was made by a shooting star.
当地有关部门认定是流星导致的。