atlas
atlas 英 [ˈætləs] 美 [ˈætləs]
n. 地图集；寰椎
名词复数:atlantes
- Can’t remember which countries border Uzbekistan? Consult an atlas, a book of maps, and you’ll find the information you need.
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- n. 地图集；寰椎
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1. It hopes to publish a global foodborne disease burden report and atlas in 2011–12.
它希望在2011-12年发布一份全球食品传播疾病负担报告和地图集。
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2. The 2005 edition is an update of the first Mental Health atlas 2001, and contains the most complete global data available on mental health resources.
2005年版是第一份《2001年精神卫生地图集》的更新，包含可获得的关于精神卫生资源的最完整全球资料。
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3. He also feared that a map in the atlas, along with news accounts repeating an error in the news release, could pull climate scientists into another vortex of damaging controversy.
他还担心新闻评述会同地图集里的地图一道，在新闻发布的时候，一而再再而三地犯着同一个错误，反而将气象学家们拉入争辩的漩涡之中。
- Atlas 1580s, in Greek mythology a member of the older family of Gods, later regarded as a Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene; in either case supposed to uphold the pillars of heaven (or earth), which according to one version was his punishment for being the war leader of the Titans in the struggle with the Olympian gods. "Originally the name of an Arcadian mountain god; the name was transferred to the mountain chain in Western Africa" [Beekes].
- atlas (n.) "collection of maps in a volume," 1636, first in the title of the English translation of "Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi" (1585) by Flemish geographer Gerhardus Mercator, who might have been the first to use this word in this way. A picture of the Titan Atlas holding up the world appeared on the frontispiece of this and other early map collections.
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