英语词汇“in microcosm”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. in microcosm: in miniature; on a small scale.

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1888 Catholic World Mar. 762 I said that the place is peaceful, but this does not always hold good; some years ago they got up election riots, a Cincinnati affair in microcosm.

1946 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 52 93/2 Puerto Rico is the Caribbean in microcosm; its cycle of change is perhaps a paradigm of folk contacts generally.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iii. 56 The same problem arises in microcosm.

1989 Independent 16 Dec. 36 A selection of them [sc. hors d'oeuvres] is a restaurant kitchen in microcosm: the skill of a pastry chef to produce the delicate shells, the saucier for those golden dabs of Hollandaise [etc.].

1993 New Republic 8 Mar. 39/1 What we are being shown in microcosm is a crisis of political decision-making taking place on a much wider scale.

单词	in microcosm
释义	> as lemmas in microcosm e. in microcosm: in miniature; on a small scale. ΚΠ 1888 Catholic World Mar. 762 I said that the place is peaceful, but this does not always hold good; some years ago they got up election riots, a Cincinnati affair in microcosm. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 52 93/2 Puerto Rico is the Caribbean in microcosm; its cycle of change is perhaps a paradigm of folk contacts generally. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iii. 56 The same problem arises in microcosm. 1989 Independent 16 Dec. 36 A selection of them [sc. hors d'oeuvres] is a restaurant kitchen in microcosm: the skill of a pastry chef to produce the delicate shells, the saucier for those golden dabs of Hollandaise [etc.]. 1993 New Republic 8 Mar. 39/1 What we are being shown in microcosm is a crisis of political decision-making taking place on a much wider scale. extracted from microcosmn. < as lemmas
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