axis
英 ['æksɪs]
美 ['æksɪs]
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Axis：俺刻细丝。人为刻出的细线，虚构之线----轴（常为虚构之线，如地球轴）。
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- 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).
- 1. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.
- 火星自转一周的时间比地球长。
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- 2. the daily rotation of the earth on its axis
- 地球每天的自转
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- 3. the vertical axis of the graph
- 图的纵轴
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- 4. The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.
- 地轴是南北极之间的线.
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- 5. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.
- 火星自转一周的时间比地球长.
来自《简明英汉词典》
