sphere

英 [sfɪə] 美[sfɪr]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词globe ball

n. 范围；球体
vt. 包围；放入球内；使…成球形
adj. 球体的

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中文词源

sphere 球，球体，球形，大气层

来自古法语 sphere,来自拉丁语 sphaera,球，球体，天体，来自希腊语 sphaira,球，球体。引申词义大气层。

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复数: spheres;

英文词源

sphere: sphere: [17] Sphere goes back ultimately to Greek sphaira, a word of uncertain origin, which reached English via Latin sphaera or sphēra and Old French espere. Amongst the theories put forward to account for its ancestry are that it was derived from Greek sphurás ‘fall of dung, round pellet of dung, pill’, which has relatives in Lithuanian spira ‘sheep-dung’ and modern Icelandic sperthill ‘goat-dung’; and that it is related to Greek spaírein ‘quiver’ and Sanskrit sphur- ‘spring, quiver, trouble’. It metaphorical use in English for ‘area of activity’ dates from the early 17th century.
sphere (n.): mid-15c., Latinized spelling of Middle English spere (c. 1300) "cosmos; space, conceived as a hollow globe about the world," from Anglo-French espiere, Old French espere (13c., Modern French sphère), from Latin sphaera "globe, ball, celestial sphere" (Medieval Latin spera), from Greek sphaira "globe, ball, playing ball, terrestrial globe," of unknown origin.

From late 14c. in reference to any of the supposed concentric, transparent, hollow, crystalline globes of the cosmos believed to revolve around the earth and contain the planets and the fixed stars; the supposed harmonious sound they made rubbing against one another was the music of the spheres (late 14c.). Also from late 14c. as "a globe; object of spherical form, a ball," and the geometric sense "solid figure with all points equidistant from the center." Meaning "range of something, place or scene of activity" is first recorded c. 1600 (as in sphere of influence, 1885, originally in reference to Anglo-German colonial rivalry in Africa).

双语例句

1. This area was formerly within the sphere of influence of the US.: 这一地区先前属于美国的势力范围。

2. Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.: 一些科学家把灵学归类到骗术范围.

3. The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.: 那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状.

4. Biology is not my sphere.: 生物学不是我研究的范围.

5. The Earth is not a perfect sphere.: 地球并不是一个完全的球体.

英英释意

1. a particular environment or walk of life;: "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

2. any spherically shaped artifact

3. the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

4. a particular aspect of life or activity;: "he was helpless in an important sector of his life"

5. a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

6. a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center

7. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

考试真题

Anything you do that advances your presence—especially in a larger sphere, outside the communities you know一is a net win.

实用场景例句

the political sphere: 政界

This area was formerly within the sphere of influence of the US.: 这一地区先前属于美国的势力范围。

He and I moved in totally different social spheres.: 我和他处在完全不同的社会圈子里。

ionosphere: 电离层

atmosphere: 大气层

...the sphere of international politics.: 国际政治领域

...nurses, working in all spheres of the health service.: 在公共医疗保健服务业的各领域工作的护士们

...the realities of life outside the government and academic spheres of society.: 政府和学术界以外社会阶层的生活现状

They see the region as their natural sphere of influence due to their historical links and a shared language.: 基于历史上的联系和共同的语言，他们把该地区看成是自己天然的势力范围。

...countries traditionally within the British or American spheres of influence.: 传统上处于英国或美国势力范围内的国家

The earth is an oblate sphere.: 地球是一扁圆球体.

The Academy offers a public sphere for cross - disciplinary communication general field of built human environment, city.: 学院以人文环境和都市作为研究主体,提供跨领域交流和公共论域的空间.

Virtual surface decompose eighth sphere to four volumes that topologies are same with hexahedral volume.: 根据球体的几何特征将八分之一球体剖分成四个和六面体同拓扑的几何体.

The caster calls down a manifestation of heavenly power from the Celestial Sphere.: 施法者从天堂召唤一个天界神力的化身下凡.

Where is the end of a sphere?: 她的尽头在哪里?

The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.: 那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状.

Astronomy A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer diametrically opposite the zenith.: 天球上,在观测者垂直向下的一点,与天顶完全相对.

The earth is about 0.34 percent away from being a perfect sphere.: 地球与一个完全的球形只差0.34%.

Asas the fifth century B . C , Parmenides of Elea declared that the earth was a sphere.: 早在公元前五世纪,E · 帕尔梅尼泽就宣布地球是球形体.

Her sphere of interests is very limited.: 她的爱好很有限.

Contemporary China's social transition, in the most essential sense manifested in the economic sphere system changes.: 当代中国的社会转型, 在最本质的意义上表现为经济范畴的制度变迁.

The solution is exact insofar as the model of the sphere is exact.: 只要球的模型是精确的,这种解释就是精确的.

The figures of differential scattering cross section ( DSCS ) of the coated sphere are presented.: 结论给出了分层介质小球的微分散射截面图.

The most important sphere of giving, however.: 然而,给予最重要的意义.

Before some philosophers said that a person's sphere of action, limited to his transportation vehicle.: 以前有哲人说,一个人的活动范围, 受限于他的交通工具.

And Goldman Sachs also develops into a leading magnate in investment bank sphere.: 高盛公司也成为欧洲数一数二的投资银行巨头.

Biology is not my sphere.: 生物学不是我研究的范围.

It prolongs life and enlarges the sphere of existence.: 他能延长人类的寿命,扩大人类的生存空间!

Is It'something that will remain in the military sphere or will endanger the overall relationship?: 此事是不是仅限于军事范畴,还是会影响双边关系大局?

His social sphere is limited.: 他的社交圈很有限.

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