cosmos

• n. 宇宙

來自詞根cosm, 安排，整理，秩序。詞義宇宙，特別是做為一個整體有序體係的宇宙，據稱來自於古希臘詞哲學家和數學家畢達哥拉斯最早使用。

cosmos

cosmos: [17] Cosmos is a learned borrowing from Greek kósmos. The underlying meaning of this was ‘order’, and it appears originally to have been applied to the world and the universe by Pythagoras and his school in reference to the orderliness of creation. In the mid 20th century the word provided a useful linguistic distinction between Western and Soviet activities in space, cosmonaut (from Russian kosmonavt) contrasting with astronaut.

Somebody who is cosmopolitan [19] is literally a ‘citizen of the world’, from Greek kosmopolítēs, a compound of kósmos and polítēs. From Greek kósmos ‘order’ was derived the verb kosmein ‘arrange, adorn’. This in turn provided the basis of the adjective kosmētikós ‘skilled in adornment’, which passed into English as cosmetic [17].
=> cosmetic, cosmopolitan

cosmos (n.)

c. 1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt's Kosmos), from Latinized form of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women). Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (compare kosmokomes "dressing the hair") as well as "the universe, the world."

Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical phrase was he oikoumene (ge) "the inhabited (earth)." Septuagint uses both kosmos and oikoumene. Kosmos also was used in Christian religious writing with a sense of "worldly life, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," but the more frequent word for this was aion, literally "lifetime, age."

1. the structure of the cosmos

宇宙的結構

來自《權威詞典》

2. Our world is but a small part of the cosmos.

我們的世界僅僅是宇宙的一小部分而已.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. The imaging was part of a project called COSMOS — the Cosmic Evolution Survey.

也是COSMOS工程(宇宙發展研究)的一部分.

來自互聯網

4. These new discoveries have broken new ground in the exploration of the cosmos.

這些新的發現在宇宙探索方麵開辟了新道路.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. There exists in the cosmos a preferred frame of reference.

宇宙中有一個從優參照係.

來自辭典例句