globe

• n. 地球；地球仪；球体
• vt. 使…成球形
• vi. 成球状

来自PIE*glebh, 球体，成球状，词源同cling, glue. 用来指地球仪。

globe

globe: [16] Globe comes from Latin globus, probably via Old French globe. Globus was related to glēba ‘lump of earth’ (source of English glebe [14]), and may denote etymologically ‘something rolled up into a ball’.
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globe (n.)

late 14c., "a large mass;" mid-15c., "spherical solid body, a sphere," from Middle French globe (14c.) and directly from Latin globus "round mass, sphere, ball" (also, of men, "a throng, crowd, body, mass"), which is related to gleba "clod, lump of soil" (see glebe) and perhaps glomus "a ball, ball of yarn," but de Vaan says the last two probably are non-IE loan-words. Sense of "the planet earth," also "map of the earth or sky drawn on the surface of an artificial sphere" are attested from 1550s. Meaning "globe-shaped glass vessel" is from 1660s. "A globe is often solid, a sphere often hollow. The secondary senses of globe are physical; those of sphere are moral." [Century Dictionary"].

1. The overhead light was covered now with a white globe.

现在，顶灯已装上了一个白色球状罩子。

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2. Martin, 78, died yesterday. Tributes poured in from around the globe.

马丁于昨天去世，享年78岁。世界各地的人们纷纷致以哀悼。

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3. America's media companies bestride the globe.

美国的传媒公司称雄寰球。

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4. He still wheels and deals around the globe.

他仍然在世界各地招摇撞骗。

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5. tourists from every corner of the globe

来自世界各地的游人

来自《权威词典》