apollo

apollo — noun

1. a major figure in the old stories of ancient Greece and Rome — a young, handsome

1.名詞
釋義

a major figure in the old stories of ancient Greece and Rome — a young, handsome god whose powers cover the sun, music, poetry, healing, and the foretelling of future events.

例句

At the temple in Delphi, priests once asked Apollo for advice about the future.

proper noun referring to the Greek god

Greek poets often called on Apollo before reciting their songs at festivals.

Apollo as patron of music and poetry

用法筆記

Always capitalised and used without an article, since Apollo is a personal name. Often appears in fixed phrases like 'temple of Apollo' or 'Apollo and the Muses'.

常見錯誤

❌The apollo was a Greek god.
✅Apollo was a Greek god.
💡proper names are capitalised and take no article.

2. the name given by NASA to the United States space project of the 1960s and early

2.名詞
釋義

the name given by NASA to the United States space project of the 1960s and early 1970s that sent astronauts to the Moon, with each mission numbered (Apollo 11, Apollo 13, and so on).

例句

In July 1969, Apollo 11 carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon.

Apollo + mission number

Engineers at NASA still study the Apollo missions to learn about deep-space travel.

attributive use: Apollo missions

文法句型

Apollo + number (Apollo 11)

用法筆記

Used attributively before nouns like 'mission', 'program', 'spacecraft', or directly with a number. Distinguish from sense 1: this sense almost always appears with 'the' or with a number, while the god sense never does.

常見錯誤

❌He worked on apollo program.
✅He worked on the Apollo program.
💡capitalise and use 'the' before 'program'.