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哈勃

Hā bó

2-character word

What 哈勃 means

1. Hubble (name)
2. Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer

The characters in 哈勃

• 哈hā(interj.) ha!; (onom. for laughter); (slang) to be infatuated with; to adore
• 勃bóflourishing; prosperous; suddenly

Example sentences

• 几个世纪以来，天文学家相信银河构成了整个宇宙。哈勃第一个证明了通过望远镜看到的天空中的模糊花斑是其他星系，而不是银河系的遥远部分。
  Jǐge shìjì yǐlái, tiānwénxuéjiā xiāngxìn Yínhé gòuchéng le zhěnggè yǔzhòu. Hābó dìyī gè zhèngmíng le tōngguò wàngyuǎnjìng kàn dào de tiānkōng zhōng de móhu huābān shì qítā xīngxì, ér bù shì Yínhéxì de yáoyuǎn bùfen.
  For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way.

Sounds the same

Read Hā bó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哈伯Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer; Fritz Haber (1868-1934), German chemist