axis
英 ['?ks?s]
美['?ks?s]
- n. 軸；軸線；軸心國
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Axis：俺刻細絲。人為刻出的細線，虛構之線----軸（常為虛構之線，如地球軸）。
中文詞源
axis 軸
來自PIE *aks, 軸。
英文詞源
- axis
- axis: [14] Axis is at the centre of a complex web of ‘turning’ words. Besides its immediate source, Latin axis, there were Greek áxōn, Sanskrit ákshas, and a hypothetical Germanic *akhsō which produced Old English eax ‘axle’ as well as modern German achse ‘axle, shaft’ and Dutch as; and there could well be a connection with Latin agere (source of English act, agent, etc) in the sense ‘drive’.
Also related is an unrecorded Latin form *acslā, which produced āla ‘wing’ (source of English aileron and aisle); its diminutive was axilla ‘armpit’, from which English gets the adjective axillary [17] and the botanical term axil [18].
=> aileron, aisle, axil - axis (n.)
- 1540s, "imaginary straight line around which a body (such as the Earth) rotates," from Latin axis "axle, pivot, axis of the earth or sky," from PIE *aks- "axis" (cognates: Old English eax, Old High German ahsa "axle;" Greek axon "axis, axle, wagon;" Sanskrit aksah "an axle, axis, beam of a balance;" Lithuanian aszis "axle"). Figurative sense in world history of "alliance between Germany and Italy" (later extended unetymologically to include Japan) is from 1936. Original reference was to a "Rome-Berlin axis" in central Europe. The word later was used in reference to a London-Washington axis (World War II) and a Moscow-Peking axis (early Cold War).
雙語例句
- 1. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.
- 火星自轉一周的時間比地球長。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. the daily rotation of the earth on its axis
- 地球每天的自轉
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. the vertical axis of the graph
- 圖的縱軸
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.
- 地軸是南北極之間的線.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.
- 火星自轉一周的時間比地球長.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》