| 词汇 | microcosm |
| 词源 | microcosm. Microcosm derives from the Greek for “little world,” the Greeks applying the word to man, whom they con- sidered as the world in miniature. The term is now used for an- ything regarded as a world in miniature. Its opposite is macrocosm. |
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