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a blue moon as the third full moon in a season with four full moons, not the usual three.
Though Sky & Telescope corrected the
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decades later, the definition caught on. For purists(语言纯正癖者), however, this New Year's Eve full moon doesn't even qualify as a
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moon. It's just the first full moon of the winter season.
In a tongue-in-cheek essay
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on the magazine's Web site this week, senior contributing editor Kelly Beatty wrote: "If skies are clear when I'm
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celebrating, I'll take a peek(眯着眼睛看) at that brilliant orb(天体) as it rises over the Boston skyline to see if it's an icy shade of blue. Or maybe I'll just howl."
(
) 1. A. wish
B. wait
C. hope
D. expect
(
) 2. A. deal with
B. do with
C. develop with
D. form into
(
) 3. A. occurred
B. came
C. ran
D. went
(
) 4. A. full
B. half
C. bright
D. part
(
) 5. A. out of sight
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