英汉词典

world 基本解释

• n. 世界；领域；宇宙；世俗；全人类；物质生活

world 词态变化

world 中文词源

缩写自古英语worold,一段时间，人类，人类的存在，wor-,人，男人，词源同virile,werewolf,old,老人，时代，字面意思即男人的时代，人的存在，后引申词义人的一生，今生，人世，人类的活动与事务，世界。词义演变比较university,cosmos.

world 英文词源

world

world: [OE] Etymologically, world means ‘age of man’. That is the basis of its earliest recorded sense, ‘earthly existence, human life’. But already by the 9th century it was being used for the ‘earth’ itself. It is a compound noun formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from *weraz ‘man’ (probable source of the were- of English werewolf and related to virile) and *ald- ‘age’ (ancestor of English old), and its relatives include German welt, Dutch wereld, Swedish verld, and Danish verden.
=> old, virile, werewolf

world (n.)

Old English woruld, worold "human existence, the affairs of life," also "a long period of time," also "the human race, mankind, humanity," a word peculiar to Germanic languages (cognates: Old Saxon werold, Old Frisian warld, Dutch wereld, Old Norse verold, Old High German weralt, German Welt), with a literal sense of "age of man," from Proto-Germanic *wer "man" (Old English wer, still in werewolf; see virile) + *ald "age" (see old).

Originally "life on earth, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," sense extended to "the known world," then to "the physical world in the broadest sense, the universe" (c. 1200). In Old English gospels, the commonest word for "the physical world," was Middangeard (Old Norse Midgard), literally "the middle enclosure" (see yard (n.1)), which is rooted in Germanic cosmology. Greek kosmos in its ecclesiastical sense of "world of people" sometimes was rendered in Gothic as manaseþs, literally "seed of man." The usual Old Norse word was heimr, literally "abode" (see home). Words for "world" in some other Indo-European languages derive from the root for "bottom, foundation" (such as Irish domun, Old Church Slavonic duno, related to English deep); the Lithuanian word is pasaulis, from pa- "under" + saule "sun."

Original sense in world without end, translating Latin saecula saeculorum, and in worldly. Latin saeculum can mean both "age" and "world," as can Greek aion. Meaning "a great quantity or number" is from 1580s. Out of this world "surpassing, marvelous" is from 1928; earlier it meant "dead." World Cup is by 1951; U.S. baseball World Series is by 1893 (originally often World's Series). World power in the geopolitical sense first recorded 1900. World-class is attested from 1950, originally of Olympic athletes.

world 词组搭配

world 英文释义

1. all of the inhabitants of the earth;

"all the world loves a lover"

"she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

2. everything that exists anywhere;

"they study the evolution of the universe"

"the biggest tree in existence"

3. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;

"his world was shattered"

"we live in different worlds"

"for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"

4. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest;

"the Western world"

5. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live;

"the Earth moves around the sun"

"he sailed around the world"

6. the concerns of the world as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife;

"they consider the church to be independent of the world"

7. a part of the earth that can be considered separately;

"the outdoor world"

"the world of insects"

8. people in general considered as a whole;

"he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

world 同义词解析

earth, world, globe

这些名词均可表示"地球"之意。

earth： 指表面有陆地和水，人类所居住行星的名字。有时与"天"相对，泛指"地"。

world： 通常相当于earth与globe，现多用指地球，地球上的世界，社会和人。

globe： 指我们生活的地球，但强调其实体和圆形。

world 双语例句

1. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.

生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方会变得更坚强。

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2. A changing world has put pressures on the company.

日新月异的世界使这家公司感到了压力。

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3. "Take That" are the best group in the whole world. So there.

“接招”乐队是世界上最好的组合，就是这样的。

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4. Many of the clothes come from the world's top fashion houses.

这些服装中有很多出自世界顶级时装设计公司。

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5. The world of the gods is anthropomorphic, an imitative projection of ours.

神界是拟人化的，是模仿我们人类世界的一个投影。

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world 实用场景例句

It's a beautiful part of the world...

这是世界上很美的一个地区。

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More than anything, I'd like to drive around the world...

我最想做的事是开车周游世界。

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The world was, and remains, shocked...

世人当时感到震惊，现在仍然如此。

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He wants to show the world that anyone can learn to be an ambassador.

他想向世人表明任何人都能通过学习而成为一名大使。

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Abroad, Mr Bush was seen as a world statesman...

在国外，布什先生被看作一位国际上举足轻重的政治家。

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China has once again emerged as a world power...

中国又一次以世界强国的姿态崛起。

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Athens had strong ties to the Arab world.

雅典与阿拉伯世界关系密切。

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...the developing world...

发展中国家

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His world seemed so different from mine...

他的生活圈子和我的似乎有天壤之别。

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I lost my job and it was like my world collapsed...

我丢了工作，我的世界好像都垮掉了。

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The publishing world had certainly never seen an event quite like this.

出版界以前确实没有遇见过类似这样的事。

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...the latest news from the world of finance.

来自金融界的最新消息

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...a golf course set in a hidden world of parkland, forest and lakes...

位于一处有公共绿地、森林和湖泊的隐秘之地的高尔夫球场

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The patient must re-enter a world full of problems and stresses.

患者必须再次进入充满问题和压力的世界。

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Good fortune will follow you, both in this world and the next.

无论今世还是来生，好运都会伴随你。

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He looked like something from another world...

他看上去像是从另一个星球来的。

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Man was drawing closer to the stars, opening new worlds.

人类在接近各个星球，探索新的天体。

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Intellectually, this man and I are worlds apart...

在智力上，我和这个男子有天壤之别。

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The novel is worlds apart from his academic writings.

这本小说和他的学术著作截然不同。

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Her living room provides the best of both worlds, with an office at one end and comfortable sofas at the other.

她家客厅一头是办公处，一头是舒适的沙发，真是两全其美。

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I never felt I achieved a great deal in my life, apart from bringing my children into the world.

除了生了几个孩子，我从未觉得自己这辈子取得了很大成就。

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There's a world of difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.

业余制作的录像短片与好莱坞制作精湛的电影作品有天壤之别。

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I wouldn't have missed this for the world.

我决不会错过这个。

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A sleep will do you the world of good.

睡一觉你就会感觉舒服多了。

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...a mature performance which must have done his career prospects a world of good.

肯定为他的事业打开了一片坦途的成熟表演

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The saddest thing in the world is a little baby nobody wants...

世上最让人难受的莫过于小婴儿遭到遗弃。

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He had no one in the world but her.

除了她，他再也没有任何亲人。

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What in the world is he doing?...

他究竟在干什么？

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Where in the world were you when I was struggling for my life?

我挣扎求生的时候，你究竟在哪儿？

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In an ideal world Karen Stevens says she would love to stay at home with her two-and-half-year old son...

卡伦·史蒂文斯说在理想的生活中，她非常愿意呆在家里照料两岁半的儿子。

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