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词汇 universe
释义 universe
noun
uk /ˈjuː.nɪ.vɜːs/ us /ˈjuː.nə.vɝːs/
B1[ S ]
everything that exists, especially all physical matter, including all the stars, planets, galaxies, etc. in space: 宇宙;天地万物;万象
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?宇宙中其他地方存在有智慧的生命吗?
[ C ]
a universe that could be imagined to exist outside our own: (想象中的)人类世界以外的另外一个世界
Scientists have speculated about the possibility of parallel universes.科学家在思考平行世界存在的可能性。
[ S ]
the world, or the world that you are familiar with: 世界;领域;范围
The characters in his novels inhabit a bleak and hopeless universe.他小说中的人物生活在一个悲凄无望的世界里。
His family is his whole universe (= everything that is important to him).他的家庭就是他的整个世界。
We have advanced greatly in our knowledge of the universe.在认识宇宙方面,我们已经取得长足的进步。
This book finally explodes some of the myths about the origin of the universe.这本书最终推翻了一些关于宇宙起源的毫无根据的说法。
The universe is theoretically infinite.从理论上来讲,宇宙是无边无际的。
There are several schools of thought about how the universe began.对于宇宙是如何形成的,有几派不同的看法。
Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.纵观历史,人们一直被这样一个问题吸引着:宇宙的其他地方是否也存在着有智力的生物?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The Earth & outer space - general words
ablate
anti-gravity
atmosphere
atmospherically
auroral
geocentric
gravity
horizon
hydrosphere
infinite
ionospheric
lithosphere
lithospheric
macrocosm
mesosphere
mesospheric
the Big Bang
underground
weightlessness
zero gravity

universe | American Dictionary


universe
noun[ U ]
us/ˈju·nəˌvɜrs/
everything that exists, esp. all physical matter, including all the stars and planets in space

universe | Business English


universe
noun[ S ]
uk /ˈjuːnɪvɜːs/us
MARKETING
a collection of people, things, or companies that have similar characteristics or features:
We rank a broad universe of stocks using both value characteristics and growth characteristics.
Salesmen seeking business leads pay extra for the service to be able to contact a broader universe of people.
a particular activity, or the people and companies involved in a particular activity:
the business/corporate/online universeThe online universe is brimming with dozens of virtual worlds vying to build sustainable life.
They chose a fund with a global rather than a limited investment universe.
The company claimed 7,500 accounts nationwide - a small but not insignificant piece of a universe of 750,000 U.S. food-service operators.

Examples of universe


universe
Term-equivalent algebras have the same universes, but the similarity types may differ.
If all possible universes could be realized, this would guarantee one (indeed infinitely many) like ours.
In actuality, nearly all regional universes have been demarcated with practical considerations in mind, and with a view to encompassing more than one environmental zone.
One might, prematurely, conclude that logic and the empirical sciences occupy different universes, and that no wormhole connects them.
Consider one of the universes which has no explanation of its existence.
Isn't the problem therefore more likely to lie with the mathematics than the argument for infinitely many universes ?
Consider first the standard argument for many universes.
Perhaps this moves us a bit further on, but we need a yet further assumption to get a definitive explanation for life-bearing universes.
Moreover, the number of life-bearing universes would then be infinite.
One might object that this picture of a series of ever-better universes is far too speculative.
If the person does not live again in the later universes, then the series is less than maximally perfect.
Each first-generation counterpart is followed by a set of second-generation resurrection counterparts (in second-generation universes).
We mention these cosmological theories only to show that the idea of a branching tree of universes is certainly not physically impossible.
States are first-order structures with partial (strict) functions and (possibly empty) universes.
The big totality includes all physically possible universes as well as all mathematically possible universes.
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Collocations withuniverse


universe

These are words often used in combination with universe.

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alternate universe
Following this, various alternateuniverse stories dealt with the character's life, giving him various names.
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Wikipedia

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early universe
They are small in the earlyuniverse, and large in gravitational collapse.
entire universe
It was speculated that the entireuniverse evolved from literally nothing.
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