核心畫面

Picture gathering everything that exists — every star, every stretch of space, every bit of matter — into one huge whole. Universe is like that 'everything added together into one': so big there's nothing outside it.

可以想成把所有存在的東西——每一顆星、每一片空間、每一樣物質——全部收攏成一個大整體。universe 的畫面比較像更多收起可以想成把所有存在的東西——每一顆星、每一片空間、每一樣物質——全部收攏成一個大整體。universe 的畫面比較像這個「全部加起來的那一個」:大到不能再大,外面再沒有別的了。

From the word’s history

Universe comes from Latin universum — unus (one) + versus, the past participle of vertere (to turn), literally 'turned into one.' That lines up with its core: taking all the scattered stars, space, and things and seeing them as one single whole.

universe 來自拉丁文 universum,拆開是 unus(一)+ versus(vertere「轉」的過去分詞),字面是「轉成一體」。這正好對上它的核心:把所有分散的星球、空間、萬物,看成合而為一的一個整體。

etymonline.com/word/universe(Latin universum, unus「one」+ versus, pp. of vertere「to turn」)

From the picture

某人的整個世界

把「一整個宇宙」這個尺度,從天文縮小到一個人的人生:對他來說,這些人事物就是他的全部。

someone's whole world · noun · C1

A person's whole world — all the people, places, and ideas that shape their life.

(某人的)世界

Also in this word

the cosmos, space · noun · B1

All of space, including every star and planet.

宇宙

parallel/fictional world · noun · B2

A complete world other than our own, especially one imagined in stories.

宇宙(平行世界)

原始詞典資料13 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。

Universename/ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/

  • 1

    Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

    • Meronyms: observable universe, Galaxy, Earth, earth
    • Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.

universenoun/ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/

  • 1

    The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.

    • Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?
  • 2

    The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.

  • 3

    Everything under consideration.

    • In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
  • 4

    mathematicssciencesEverything under consideration.

  • 5

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsEverything under consideration.

    • In general content-related evidence demonstrates the degree to which the sample of items, tasks or questions on a test is representative of some defined universe or domain of content.
  • 6

    businesseconomicsmarketingEverything under consideration.

  • 7

    An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.

    • The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
  • 8

    literaturemediapublishingAn imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.

    • Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.

    • That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.
  • 10

    A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.

    • The universe wants you to succeed.
  • 11

    archaicThe Earth, the sphere of the world.

    • Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。