a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.
星座。
〈喻〉 群体
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no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms .没有两个病人会表现出完全相同的一组症状。
"Middle English (as an astrological term denoting the relative positions of the ‘stars' (planets), supposed to influence events): via Old French from late Latin