| 单词 | outer world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasouter world outer world n. (a) the world outside that which is familiar or known to any individual; (b) the external and material world (as opposed to subjective and internal thoughts, feelings, etc.); (c) people outside one's own immediate circle. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > people generally the vulgar world1632 outer world1874 1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio i. 32 Now to this World's great Spirit there belong Of Spirits an innumerable throng, Which only to this outer world pertain. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. x. 155 Neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me. I had had no communication by letter or message with the outer world. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 93 Though themselves invisible to the outer world, they [sc. convictions] may yet operate with magnetic force..upon other parts of our belief. 1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xxiv. 259 A footprint in the sand..put beyond a doubt the fact that the outer world really existed. 1956 I. Murdoch Flight from Enchanter x. 130 Until the outer world had disappeared altogether, mingled with thought and transformed into an inner substance. 1988 A. Storr School of Genius xii. 202 Perfect happiness, the oceanic feeling of complete harmony between inner and outer worlds, is only transiently possible. < as lemmas |
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