- 1宇宙（帶有「有秩序的整體」的意味，比 universe 更文氣、更常出現在書名或詩裡）
The cosmos is everything that exists — all the stars, all the space, all the matter and time — but the word carries a feeling that a plain word like 'universe' does not. When you say 'the cosmos', you are thinking of it as one whole thing that hangs together, that has an order to it, that makes some kind of sense. That feeling is old: the Greek word it comes from meant 'order' first and 'universe' second, and the same root gave us 'cosmetics' (things that put a face in good order). So a scientist who says 'the cosmos' is usually being a little poetic, or a little philosophical, on purpose. 'Universe' is the everyday and the technical word; 'cosmos' is what you reach for in a book title, a documentary, a poem, or a sentence where you want the reader to feel small and the sky to feel big. You will meet it most in writing, and in phrases like 'our place in the cosmos'. It almost always takes 'the'. There is also a completely separate 'cosmos' — a garden flower with thin leaves and flat pink or white , common in Taiwan in autumn fields. Same Greek word, but for its neat, ordered look. That one is a plant, not this sense; if a sentence is about planting or , it is the flower.
組成From Greek kosmos, which meant 'order, arrangement' and also 'ornament, decoration' — the universe was called this because the Greeks saw it as an orderly, beautifully arranged thing rather than a mess. English took it through Middle English from the Greek. Deeper back, scholars trace it to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning roughly 'to put in order, to announce'.
同家族的字
- cosmicthe adjective from the same Greek kosmos — 'of the cosmos'
- cosmeticalso from Greek kosmos, but from its other meaning 'ornament, arrangement' — cosmetics arrange the face
- cosmopolitankosmos 'world' + politēs 'citizen' — a citizen of the whole world
- microcosmGreek mikros 'small' + kosmos — a small world that mirrors the big one
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cosmosname
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A city in Minnesota.
cosmosnoun詞源 1/ˈkɒzmɒs/
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The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.
- This doctrine [the nebular hypothesis] supposes all the material universe to have been once in a fluid or nebular condition, and that, by the operation of universal gravitation and the thousand other laws of nature, the nebular matter has been mainly aggregated into masses, and the existing cosmoi been developed.
- It [the earth] was in the centre of the Kosmos; it remained stationary because of its equal distance from all parts of the outer revolving spheres; there was no cause determining it to move upward rather than downward or sideways, therefore it remained still. Its exhalations nourished the fire in the peripheral regions of the Kosmos.
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The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.
- This simple cell is a cosmos in this respect: it represents the laws of the universe in changes of matter, and clearly exemplifies their workings in the oral cavity.
- Obviously, there are multiple cosmoses in the debate, out of which we picked four. The two first can be understood as compromise cosmoses. […] There is the cosmos of the reformer, which took by and large shape in the EDDP and which we entitled Public Future. Then there is the cosmos of the existing mode of ordering the city which by and large prevailed in the RDDP. […] Further, we present two cosmoses nurturing the strong opposition. They are both militant perspectives surging from the "civil society".
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Harmony, order.
- He [Frederick I of Prussia] founded Universities, this poor King; University of Halle; Royal Academy of Berlin, [Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz presiding: he fought for Protestantism;—did what he could for the cause of Cosmos versus Chaos, after his fashion.
cosmosnoun詞源 2/ˈkɒzmɒs/
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Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
- This beautiful plant was discovered in Mexico, before 1789; as seeds of it sent to Madrid produced plants, which blossomed in that year in the Royal Botanic Garden of Spain. It was first described and figured in 1797, by [Antonio José] Cavanilles, who called it Cosmos, from the Greek word Kosmos, beautiful; but this name was afterwards altered by [Carl Ludwig] Willdenow to Cosmea, as being more consistent with the rules of botanical nomenclature.
- COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS; var. atro-sanguineus. Various-leaved Cosmos; deep blood-flowered var. […] Seeds of this plant were received by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, from Mexico. It is doubtless a handsome species of Cosmos. The question is if it can be safely referred to any described species.
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