shooting star

音标发音

Whether artificial or not, he said, the object was bigger than an ordinary shooting star.
不管是不是人造物体，他说，这个东西比一般的流星要大。
A year later, Hergé deleted the drawing of the Jews of his own accord, when the serialised “The Shooting Star” became an album.
一年之后，埃尔热自行删去对犹太人的描写，当时，连载的“神秘流星”已经出书。
It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.
一开始像是颗流星，可接着那轨迹越来越亮，变成两个光点，就像是火箭喷出的气流，那个东西一点没出声就着落了。

Amazon is the first shining ray of the new commercial millennium -- a pure Web play, fleeting as a shooting star, unburdened by any legacy baggage at all.
FORBES: Coming soon -- cyber co-ops
Lying on the dirt floor of my room looking up at the night sky, I would pray, "Please let me have a pretty doll, " whenever I spotted a shooting star.
NPR: 'A Tale of Music': From 'Literature from the Axis of Evil'

a meteor (= a piece of rock from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the earth's atmosphere)

A shooting star is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the Earth's atmosphere from space, and is seen from earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky.