world

英 [wɜːld] 美 [wɜːrld]

• n. 世界；地球；世人；世间；领域
• adj. 世界的

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [S] 世界,地球

   the body in space on which we live; the Earth

2. [C] 天体,星球

   star system, especially one which may contain life

3. [S] 界,领域

   a group of living things; a particular area of human activity

4. [S] 众人; 世人; 人类

   people generally; the public

5. [S] 世间; 人间

   material standards and principles, rather than those of the spirit

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 世界，天下
2. 地球
3. 天体
4. 宇宙，万物
5. 人类
6. 世人，众人
7. 世间，人世生活
8. 领域
9. 物质生活
10. 大量，无数
11. 世情，世故，世事

英英释义

Noun:

1. everything that exists anywhere;

   "they study the evolution of the universe"
   "the biggest tree in existence"
   

2. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest;

   "the Western world"
   

3. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;

   "his world was shattered"
   "we live in different worlds"
   "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
   

4. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on;

   "the Earth moves around the sun"
   "he sailed around the world"
   

5. people in general considered as a whole;

   "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
   

6. a part of the earth that can be considered separately;

   "the outdoor world"
   "the world of insects"
   

7. the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife;

   "they consider the church to be independent of the world"
   

8. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth;

   "all the world loves a lover"
   "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
   

Adjective:

1. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope;

   "global war"
   "global monetary policy"
   "neither national nor continental but planetary"
   "a world crisis"
   "of worldwide significance"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He is the richest man in the world.
   他是世界上最富有的人。
2. There is a map of the world on the wall.
   墙上有张世界地图。
3. Long ago, people believed that the world was flat.
   很久以前人们相信地球是平的。
4. The world's natural ecosystems act as a buffer.
   地球上的自然生态系统起着一种缓冲的作用。
5. Much of the world is covered by sea.
   地球的很大一部分都被大海覆盖着。
6. He wanted to tell the news to the world.
   他要把这件事告诉每一个人。
7. The world certainly knows from whence.
   世人当然了解小布什的血缘身世。
8. British television is the envy of the world.
   英国电视节目令世人羡慕。
9. I'll prove to the world that he was right.
   我将向世人证明他是对的。
10. Many affairs of the world are all such.
    世间的许多事情都如此。
11. Let us light up the world with our brainchild!
    让我们的色彩为世间增添欢笑。
12. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single action.
    世间所有美丽的情感抵不过一次可爱的行动。
13. I already began to feel that much of what the world was seeking was superficial.
    我开始觉得很多世间所追寻的东西是很浮浅的。
14. The world of science always contains a few anomalies.
    科学领域里总会出现反常情况。
15. We should steadily open more fields to the outside world.
    稳步扩大对外开放领域。
16. Mr. Wang has been a smash hit in the business world.
    王先生在商业领域里十分成功。

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. I suppose all the compositions are world famous pieces.
   我想所有的曲子都是世界名曲吧。
2. World energy demand is increasing at a rate of about 3% per year.
   世界能源的需求量正以每年百分之三的速度递增。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. She has sailed round the world.
   她作过环球航行。
2. Our world is but a small part of the universe.
   我们的地球只不过是宇宙的一小部分。
3. Is there life on other worlds?
   其他星球上有生命吗?
4. Nine worlds go round our sun.
   九个行星围绕太阳运转。
5. Wilson conceived of a world free from war.
   威尔逊设想了一个摆脱战争的世界。
6. Some like security.Some like danger.It takes all sorts to make a world.
   有人喜欢安全,有人喜欢冒险,形形色色,构成世界。
7. You are a ray of light to me in a very dark world.
   你是我黑暗世界中的一束光线。
8. The women's volleyball team put up a desperate fight to win the world championship at all costs.
   女子排球队为争取世界冠军而不惜一切代价,殊死拼搏。
9. It is not easy to be in the commercial world.
   在商界是不容易的。
10. Politics was a man's world.
    政治是男人的世界。
11. He is known to the Western world,to all the world.
    西方人,全世界人都知道他。
12. He retired to the country and shut out the world.
    他退隐到乡村而与人们隔绝。
13. The whole world suffered in the world war.
    在世界大战期间全世界的人类都受了苦。
14. The world goes very well with me.
    我的情况很好。
15. You must see the world a lot.
    你应该多见见世面。
16. He is not of the world.
    他超然脱俗。
17. He's very young and inexperienced, and doesn't know about the ways of the world.
    他还很年轻,又缺乏经验,不懂得人情世故。
18. They met a world of trouble.
    他们遇到了许多困难。
19. There's a world of difference between thinking about it and doing it!
    这件事说是一回事,真的干起来是另一回事,两者相差太远。
20. I went to a world of trouble to help him, but it was all of no use.
    我千辛万苦地帮助他,可是全部白费了。
21. The ancient Egyptian civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
    古埃及文化是世界上最古老的文化之一。
22. Madame Curie was the only famous woman scientist in the world.
    居里夫人是世界上唯一有名的女科学家。
23. Nothing in the world can stop us going ahead .
    世界上没有什么东西能阻挡我们前进。

经典引文

• A Christian's chief care being to pass quietly through this world to a better.

  出自： W. Paley

• She was too good for this world and for me, and she died.

  出自： Dickens

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

(all) the world and his wife

人人,许多人 many people

all the world to

对…至关重要 very important to

for all the world as if〔like〕

正像…一样 exactly as if〔like〕

not for (all)the world

无论如何不,肯定不会 certainly not

out of this world

好得不得了 absolutely wonderful, magnificent, beautiful, etc.The scenery and costumes for the opera are out of this world.这个歌剧的布景和戏装好极了。

set the world on fire

极为成功并引起轰动 be very successful and cause great excitement

what (who, why) in the world

到底是什么,究竟是什么 emphatically what, why, etc.

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• astonish the world 震撼世界
• beat the world in 在…方面世界第一
• begin the world 开始谋生
• come into the world 出世,问世,诞生
• conquer the world 征服世界
• know the world 了解世界
• lead the world in ... 在…方面世界领先
• reform the world 改造世界
• rise in the world 飞黄腾达
• rule the world 统治世界
• search the world for markets 在全世界寻求市场
• see the world 游览天下,见世面
• shake the world 震撼世界
• think the world of 极其看重…,极其热爱…,极其渴望…
• travel around the world 环球旅行

形容词+～

• ancient world 古代世界
• changing world 变化中的世界
• civilized world 文明世界
• confused world 混乱的世界
• divided world 分裂的世界
• free world 自由世界
• known world 已知的世界
• lower world 地狱
• material world 物质世界
• modern world 现代世界
• new world 新世界
• objective world 客观世界
• Old W- 西半球(尤指欧洲)
• outer world 外部世界
• physical world 物质世界
• real world 真实的世界
• the Third W- 第三世界
• unknown world 未知世界
• whole world 全世界
• athletic world 体育界
• commercial world 商界
• economic world 经济界
• educational world 教育界
• financial world 金融界
• industrial world 工业界
• learned world 学术界
• literary world 文学界
• medical world 医学界
• mineralworld 矿物界
• musical world 音乐界
• natural world 自然界
• scientific world 科学界
• social world 社交界
• next world 来世

名词+～

• animal world 动物世界
• art world 艺术界
• dancing world 舞蹈界
• gambling world 赌场
• magazine world 杂志圈
• newspaper world 新闻界
• publishing world 出版界
• reading world 读书界
• theatre world 戏剧界
• thinking world 思想界
• vegetable world 植物世界

～+名词

• world peace 世界和平
• world situation 世界形势
• world war 世界大战

介词+～

• around〔round〕 the world 环球
• in the world of change 在变化的世界中
• the wonders of the world 世界奇观
• for all the world 无论如何
• for all the world alike 非常相似
• in the world 到底,究竟
• out of this (the) world 超凡,非常好
• to the world 完全地,彻底地

～+介词

• the world of football 足球界

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. world的基本意思是“世界,天下”,常与介词in连用,其前面可加不定冠词a。world也可指“天体,星球”,尤指可能有生物的星球,作这两种意思解时,可用作可数名词,也可用作不可数名词。
2. world可表示“范围,…界”; 也可表示“全世界的人,人类,公众,群众”,这时其前须加定冠词the; 还可表示“人世生活,世面,眼界,世俗”。作以上解时,常用作单数形式。world还可作“大量,无数”解。
3. in the world作强势语时用于以下结构中:①最高级结构; ②有only修饰的句子; ③用来修饰nothing。
4. world还可用于其他名词前作定语。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

world, earth, globe

• 这三个词的共同意思是“地球,世界”。其区别是：
• earth是区别于其他星球或天堂、地狱而言的; globe主要强调地球的形状是圆形的。例如:
• There is no place on the globe where the name of Shakespeare is unknown.地球上没有一个角落不知道莎士比亚这个名字的。
• world则强调全体人类或世事。例如:
• All the world hopes the conference will be successful.全世界都希望会谈能取得成功。

下面三句意思相同,前两句意思更普通些:

• My holiday did my health a world of good.
• My holiday did my health the world of good.
• My holiday did my health worlds of good.
• 我的假期对我的健康有很大的益处。

下面out of this world在句中的意思不同:

• He is a very well-meaning person, but he is out of this world.
• 他的用意相当好,可就是不切合实际。
• The performance was simply out of this world.
• 那场演出简直再好不过了。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 中国是世界上人口最多的国家。

   误 China is the country that has the largest population in world.

   正 China is the country that has the largest population in the world.

   析 world(世界)是独一无二的东西,前面要加定冠词the。同样,在sun, moon, earth, sky等名词前也要加the。

2. 你究竟在哪里找到那顶帽子的?

   误 Where in world did you find that hat?

   正 Where in the world did you find that hat?

   析 in the world表示“究竟”,是固定搭配,这里的the不能省去。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的woruld，意为世界。

近反义词

【近义词】

• area
• earth
• field
• globe
• planet