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A macrocosm is a very large, system that you look at as one whole thing. The first meaning is the universe itself — everything that exists, taken together. People also use it for a whole society, a whole culture, or any huge human world, when they want you to see the big picture rather than the little pieces. It is a word. In ordinary talk most people would just say “the universe” or “the whole system.” You will often meet it next to its partner microcosm: a small thing that seems to copy the large one. If a classroom is a microcosm of society, then society is the macrocosm. Teachers and writers like this pair; it is not a word you need at the market.
大宇宙;宏觀世界
組成From Middle French macrocosme and Medieval Latin macrocosmus, formed from Ancient Greek makrós (“great, long”) + kósmos (“universe, order”). So: the great universe.
同家族的字
- microcosmthe matching word with micro- (small) instead of macro- (large)
- cosmicshares Greek kosmos, universe or order
- macroscopicshares macro- meaning large
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
macrocosmnoun/ˈmæk.ɹə(ʊ)ˌkɒz.əm/
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesA complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
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The universe.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。