axis

• n. 軸；軸線；軸心國

來自PIE *aks, 軸。

axis

axis: [14] Axis is at the centre of a complex web of ‘turning’ words. Besides its immediate source, Latin axis, there were Greek áxōn, Sanskrit ákshas, and a hypothetical Germanic *akhsō which produced Old English eax ‘axle’ as well as modern German achse ‘axle, shaft’ and Dutch as; and there could well be a connection with Latin agere (source of English act, agent, etc) in the sense ‘drive’.

Also related is an unrecorded Latin form *acslā, which produced āla ‘wing’ (source of English aileron and aisle); its diminutive was axilla ‘armpit’, from which English gets the adjective axillary [17] and the botanical term axil [18].
=> aileron, aisle, axil

axis (n.)

1540s, "imaginary straight line around which a body (such as the Earth) rotates," from Latin axis "axle, pivot, axis of the earth or sky," from PIE *aks- "axis" (cognates: Old English eax, Old High German ahsa "axle;" Greek axon "axis, axle, wagon;" Sanskrit aksah "an axle, axis, beam of a balance;" Lithuanian aszis "axle"). Figurative sense in world history of "alliance between Germany and Italy" (later extended unetymologically to include Japan) is from 1936. Original reference was to a "Rome-Berlin axis" in central Europe. The word later was used in reference to a London-Washington axis (World War II) and a Moscow-Peking axis (early Cold War).

1. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.

火星自轉一周的時間比地球長。

來自《權威詞典》

2. the daily rotation of the earth on its axis

地球每天的自轉

來自《權威詞典》

3. the vertical axis of the graph

圖的縱軸

來自《權威詞典》

4. The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.

地軸是南北極之間的線.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.

火星自轉一周的時間比地球長.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》