| 释义 |
sphere/sfiə/ n. & v.●n. 1 a solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre 球；球体；球面 2 an object having this shape; a ball or globe 球状物；球形 3a any celestial body 天体 b a globe representing the earth 地球仪 c poet. the heavens; the sky [诗]天；天空 d the sky perceived as a vault upon or in which celestial bodies are represented as lying 苍穹 e hist. each of a series of revolving concentrically arranged spherical shells in which celestial bodies were formerly thought to be set in a fixed relationship [史义]天球(古时人们想像的旋转球体，曾被认为内有固定位置的天体) 4a a field of action, influence, or existence (行动、影响或存在的)范围；领域 have done much within their own sphere 在他们自己的领域内做了许多工作 b a (usu. specified) stratum of society or social class 社会阶层；社会等级 moves in quite another sphere 进入一个完全不同的社会阶层 ●v. tr. archaic or poet. [古义] [诗] 1 enclose in or as in a sphere 把…放在天球内 2 form into a sphere 使成球形 □ music (or harmony) of the spheres the natural harmonic tones supposedly produced by the movement of the celestial spheres (see sense 3e of n. 见名词释义 3e) or the bodies fixed in them 天体音乐 □ spheral adj.[Middle English sper(e) via Old French espere and Late Latin sphera, Latin sphaera, from Greek sphaira ‘ball’] |