microcosm

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n. 小宇宙, 小世界, 人类

发音

UK /ˈmaɪ.kɹə(ʊ)ˌkɒz.əm/
US /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌkɑz.əm/
AU

词形变化

microcosms 复数 microcosms

教材释义与例句

名词

微观世界；小宇宙；作为宇宙缩影的人类；缩图（等于microcosmos）

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe; man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature.

    小宇宙

    The Christian humanists were emphatic in their demand that a man who wishes to understand himself must realize that he is a little world that reflects on a smaller scale the larger world of the universe. […] On the other hand, the whole idea of man as a microcosm was questioned by those who were not in sympathy with the Christian humanists.

  2. 2.

    The human body; a person.

    废旧
  3. 3.

    A smaller system which is seen as representative of a larger one.

    缩影

    Near-synonyms: epitome, paradigm, model

  4. 4.

    A small natural ecosystem; an artificial ecosystem set up as an experimental model.

    生物

    The method is relatively labour intensive (24-30 microcosms are run) and more difficult to interpret when compared with other microcosm methods (Shannon et al. 1986; Cairns & Cherry 1993).

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

example model

词源

From French microcosme, from Latin microcosmus, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “universe, order”); micro- + -cosm.

来源：wiktionary