microcosm
microcosm 英 [ˈmaɪkrəʊkɒzəm] 美 [ˈmaɪkroʊkɑzəm]
n. 微观世界；小宇宙；作为宇宙缩影的人类；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. 微观世界；小宇宙；作为宇宙缩影的人类；缩图（等于microcosmos）
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1. In each one of these places you will find a microcosm of molecules which directly impact the look, smell, touch, and sound of everything that you see.
在每一个这样的地方，你都可以发现分子的微观世界，它们会直接影响你所见物质的外观、气味、触感和声音。
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2. O'Neill and Singer are drawn by the diversity of the Chelsea hotel, which is like New York itself - dark, crumbling and colourful - a microcosm of Manhattan, where everyone has a story.
尼尔和莎莉被切尔西的多样性所吸引，它就如纽约本身那样，暗色，碎片状有色彩。 它是曼哈顿的微观世界，在这里的每个人都有一个故事。
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3. Because your body is a microcosm of how you feel about your life.
因为你的身体就像一个微观世界，反映着你对这个世界的感受。
- 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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