planet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 行星，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate.
-- And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
-- Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun's disk.
-- Naturally, at first I took it to be the moon, but there is much to incline me to believe that what I really saw was the transit of an inner planet passing very near to the earth.
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