microcosm
microcosm 英 [ˈmaɪkrəʊkɒzəm] 美 [ˈmaɪkroʊkɑzəm]
n. 缩影；缩图（等于microcosmos）
名词复数:microcosms
- When you think of microcosm, picture your home town inside a snow globe. The teeny tiny city is a microcosm of the one you live in. It is that place in miniature.
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- n. 缩影；缩图（等于microcosmos）
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1. The family is a microcosm of society.
家庭是社会的缩影。
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2. So this is a microcosm of the way America is today.
这是今日美国的缩影。
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3. pond microcosm
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- 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).
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