microcosm
发音
How to pronounce microcosm in British English:
英 [ˈmaɪkrəʊkɒzəm]
How to pronounce microcosm in American English:
美 [ˈmaɪkroʊkɑzəm]
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- Noun:
- a miniature model of something
单词词源
- microcosm (n.)
- c. 1200, mycrocossmos (modern form from early 15c.), "human nature, man viewed as the epitome of creation," literally "miniature world," from Middle French microcosme and in earliest use directly from Medieval Latin microcosmus, from Greek mikros "small" (see mica) + kosmos "world" (see cosmos). General sense of "a community constituting a world unto itself" is attested from 1560s. Related: Microcosmic. A native expression in the same sense was petty world (c. 1600).
反义词
双语例句
- 1. A veg patch is a microcosm of personal artifice .
- 2. The episode is a tidy microcosm of liberal frustration with obama .
- 3. Beijing 's move is a microcosm of china 's wider modernization reform .
- 4. In short , the state is a microcosm of the national debate .
- 5. In its death throes , it is an eerie microcosm of the eurozone .