atlas
/ˈætləs/noun
1
- a book of maps or charts地图册：
I looked in the atlas to see where Naples was
我在地图册里找那不勒斯在哪儿
a road atlas.
公路地图集。
1.1
- a book of illustrations or diagrams in any subject图例集; 图表集。
2
- （亦作 atlas vertebra）Anatomy the topmost vertebra of the backbone, articulating with the occipital bone of the skull【剖】第一颈椎, 寰椎。
3
- (pl. Atlantes /ətˈlæntiːz/) Architecture a stone carving of a male figure, used as a column to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building【建筑】（希腊式建筑中支撑柱楣的）男像柱。
词源
late 16th cent. (originally denoting a person who supported a great burden)： via Latin from Greek ATLAS, the Titan of Greek mythology who supported the heavens and whose picture appeared at the front of early atlases.