fixed star

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As a result, Germany was no longer perceived as a fixed star in the European firmament, let alone stolidly in mid-Atlantic.
結(jié)果，德國(guó)不再被視為歐洲蒼穹里的恒星了，更不用說(shuō)在中大西洋地區(qū)徘徊不前。
The Sun-Mercury conjunction at the Fixed Star Spica may denote public appeal, windfalls and gain, fortunate innovations and good news.
日水在恒星角宿的聯(lián)手象征著公開(kāi)呼吁、意外錢財(cái)與收獲、幸運(yùn)創(chuàng)新與好消息。
1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
1612年的今天，伽利略成為第一個(gè)觀察到海王星的天文學(xué)家，盡管他把它錯(cuò)誤描述為恒星。

Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.
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However, for the star value they bring their franchise as a fixed cost, they are highly underpaid.
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Is a star as solid as he is really the right choice to play a ghostly drifter of no fixed abode?
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a star that is so far from the earth that it seems not to move in relation to other distant (= far away) stars as the earth moves through space

any of the stars in the Ptolemaic system, all of which were thought to be attached to an outer crystal sphere thus explaining their apparent lack of movement