cosmos

• n. 宇宙

来自词根cosm, 安排，整理，秩序。词义宇宙，特别是做为一个整体有序体系的宇宙，据称来自于古希腊词哲学家和数学家毕达哥拉斯最早使用。

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

宇宙的结构

来自《权威词典》

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

我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

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

也是COSMOS工程(宇宙发展研究)的一部分.

来自互联网

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

这些新的发现在宇宙探索方面开辟了新道路.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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

宇宙中有一个从优参照系.

来自辞典例句