"divided into three lobes," 1620s, from Latin trifidus "cleft in three," from tri- "three" (see tri-) + -fid. This adjective probably inspired triffid, the name of the three-legged walking poisonous plants in John Wyndham's novel "The Day of the Triffids" (1951).
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1. The Trifid Nebula itself represents the final phase of star formation.
三叶星云本身代表着恒星形成的最后阶段.
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2. The Trifid is a little dimmer than the Lagoon.
三叶星云比泻湖星云稍暗一些.
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3. Trifid got its name because in photographs it has three distinct lobes.
三叶星云是由于在照片中呈现出三片叶子形状而得名.
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4. Tenth, we see a fragment of the Trifid Nebula, a stellar cradle to 9000 light - years .
