Taurus

(noun.) the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20.

(noun.) a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini.

(noun.) (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus.

卡里校对

• THE stars still shone brightly when I awoke, and Taurus high in the southern heaven shewed that it was midnight. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gradually the Ottoman princes consolidated an empire that reached from the Taurus mountains in the east to Hungary and Roumania in the west. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They had to be sea attacks because Islam, so long as it was under Arab rule, never surmounted the barrier of the Taurus Mountains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But at the Taurus Mountains the Moslem thrust was held. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:南森