单词 | world-building |
释义 | > as lemmasworld-building world-building n. ΚΠ 1820 Edinb. Rev. Dec. 346/1 After reviewing a variety of world-building theories, all of them cunningly devised,..he proceeds to sum up the case. 1900 Harper's Weekly 24 Mar. 280/2 Those great epochal dramas..appeared to our fathers to be majestic monitors and memorials of world-building and fate-defying individualities. 1920 A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation x. 160 It might seem that this kind of fantastic world-building can have little to do with practical problems. 2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 July 53/2 (advt.) George R.R. Martin's ‘A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)’, the first in a fantasy series that Ms. Brockway called ‘the best world-building since Noah crashed into Mount Ararat’. < as lemmas |
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