| 单词 | cosmos |
| 释义 | cosmos (once / 3211 pages) 1n 2n The cosmos is the sum total of everything — pretty big. It's hard to wrap your mind around the cosmos, as it extends far beyond the Milky Way, or far-off galaxies, or even our own universe. Cosmos is originally a Greek word, meaning both "order" and "world," because the ancient Greeks thought that the world was perfectly harmonious and impeccably put in order. We now use cosmos without the idea of perfect order. Now it means, "all of creation," and particularly on the scale of the stars, the planets, the black holes, the other universes, and all the stuff we don't know about. It's also, totally separately, the name of a pretty, flowering Mexican herb. WORD FAMILYcosmos: cosmoses USAGE EXAMPLESWhile fighting these battles on Earth, Dr. Rubin peered into the cosmos and examined the rotation of more than 200 galaxies. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) For the first quarter of a million years, the cosmos was hidden from astronomers. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) “Our whole planet suddenly, in this image, seemed tiny, vulnerable, and incredibly lonely against the vast blackness of the cosmos,” Petsko wrote. The New Yorker(Dec 21, 2016) 1 n everything that exists anywhere 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper creation, existence, macrocosm, universe, world closed universe (cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter natural orderthe physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws naturethe natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man n any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals Syn|Hyper cosmea flower a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
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