atlas

n. 地图集；寰椎

n.

地图集；〈比喻〉身负重担的人；

变形

复数：atlases

双语释义

[C]地图集 book of maps

英英释义

atlas

n.

(Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders

a collection of maps in book form

同义词：book of mapsmap collection

the 1st cervical vertebra

同义词：atlas vertebra

a figure of a man used as a supporting column

同义词：telamon

词组短语

atlas mountains阿特拉斯山脉（阿尔卑斯山系的一部分）

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The atlas was published by our company.
这个地图集是由我们公司出版的。

The little box of icons at the front of the atlas helps you decipher the maps.
地图集前面的小标记说明能帮助你读懂地图的含义。

权威例句

atlas

atlas: [16] In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan who as a punishment for rebelling against the gods was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders. Hence when the term was first used in English it was applied to a ‘supporter’: ‘I dare commend him to all that know him, as the Atlas of Poetry’, Thomas Nashe on Robert Greene’s Menaphon 1589. In the 16th century it was common to include a picture of Atlas with his onerous burden as a frontispiece in books of maps, and from this arose the habit of referring to such books as atlases (the application is sometimes said to have arisen specifically from such a book produced in the late 16th century by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512–94), published in England in 1636 under the title Atlas).Atlas also gave his name to the Atlantic ocean. In ancient myth, the heavens were said to be supported on a high mountain in northwestern Africa, represented as, and now named after, the Titan Atlas. In its Greek adjectival form Atlantikós (later Latin Atlanticus) it was applied to the seas immediately to the west of Africa, and gradually to the rest of the ocean as it came within the boundaries of the known world.=> atlantic

Atlas

1580s, Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, supposed to uphold the pillars of heaven, which was his punishment for being the war leader of the Titans in the struggle with the Olympian gods. The name in Greek perhaps means "The Bearer (of the Heavens)," from a-, copulative prefix, + stem of tlenai "to bear," from PIE root *tele- "to lift, support, weigh." Mount Atlas, in Mauritania, was important in Greek cosmology as a support of the heavens.

atlas (n.)

"collection of maps in a volume," 1636, first in reference to the English translation of "Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi" (1585) by Flemish geographer Gerhardus Mercator (1512-1594), 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.

1. This is a standard atlas.

这是一本有权威性的地图册。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. Please reach (me) the atlas down from the bookshelf.

请把那本地图册从书架上取下来（递给我）.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. It was the realm of King Atlas, whose bulk surpassed that of all other men.

这是阿特拉斯国王的国土，阿特拉斯长得五大三粗，天下无双。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. The entire "Geographia" is the first atlas and gazetteer.

全部《地理学》可说是第一本地图集和地名辞典。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. Indispensable for the observer is a good star atlas, containing all naked eye stars.

观测者必须具备一份包括肉眼能看到的所有天体的好星图。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. Any atlas, containing many pages of maps, normally includes an index, called a gazetteer.

任何载有多幅地图的地图集，一般都附有一份地名索引。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. For all practical purposes a ballistic missile such as Atlas is guided to its target.

根据各种实用目的，可使象“阿特拉斯”这样的弹道导弹导向其目标。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. He reached down the atlas from the top shelf.

他从书架顶层取下地图集。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. Some important work lies ahead for Atlas.

“阿特拉斯”导弹面临某项重要任务。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

10. The computer designed by Manchester University in Britain in 1962. Its memory is the embrynie form of the widespread now virtual memory. And the first spool working mode was used in it.

英国曼彻斯特大学于1962年设计的一台计算机。它的存储器是现在广为采用的虚拟存储器的雏形。在atlas计算机上还最先采用了假脱机工作方式。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句