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单词 macrocosm
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Definition of macrocosm in English:

macrocosm

noun ˈmakrə(ʊ)kɒz(ə)mˈmækroʊˌkɑzəm
  • The whole of a complex structure, especially the world or the universe, contrasted with a small or representative part of it.

    Contrasted with microcosm
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We must not weary of studying the microcosm if we wish rightly to understand the macrocosm of a developed economic order.
    • Its clear globe reveals a magnified view into the pores of the leaf upon which it rests, encouraging appreciation to the macrocosm of beauty that exists at micro scale.
    • On return to India, he extended it to the macrocosm.
    • The vision of the hexagram represents the union of the macrocosm & microcosm.
    • Like them he believes that the macrocosm of the enormous complexity of the personality is reflected in the microcosm of every gesture, every vocalization.
    • The traditional linkage of human calendrical microcosms to universal historical macrocosms followed an argument in five stages.
    • The microcosm as well as the macrocosm is based on a constant harmony of movement, from the atoms to the galaxies.
    • Clearly we have no trouble building systems of thought around whatever we perceive the structure of the macrocosm to be.
    • It included not only human beings but also everything else in the universe, through the reciprocal relationship of the human microcosm with the macrocosm of the created order.
    • That sense of malaise found its way into Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika, in which, says Schultze, he enlarges that feeling of disaffection and ‘brings it into the macrocosm.’
    • Both deal with the union of the microcosm (the individual) with the macrocosm (the divine), although they might use different terminology.
    • Of course, I'm setting up a tidy opposition here between the microcosm and the macrocosm, between the political and the philosophical.
    • Conception of the macrocosm in the Pratyabhijna system is based on a very deep study of the microcosm.
    • If the microcosm of individual consciousness is reproduced in the macrocosm of unified consciousness, then perhaps the individual and society have their analogues in the neuron and brain respectively.
    • Gattaca plays off the microcosm, the inner genetic make-up of the individual as the most reductionist way of perceiving human life and the vast macrocosm.
    • In order to describe the consumer vortex, we move from the microcosm to the macrocosm.
    • In my personal practice of Tai Chi I find a well executed form shifts my awareness from ego chatter to a greater sense of integration with the macrocosm.
    • Everything combined to build up belief in this parallel world, in which microcosm and macrocosm were linked by complex networks of correspondences and powers.
    • The Torres Islands represent an ecological macrocosm whose two annual seasons are defined by the prevailing winds and by the periodic movement of the sun to the south and north of the thermal equator.
    • Very soon, however, junkspace becomes a virus that spreads and proliferates throughout the macrocosm.
    Synonyms
    universe, cosmos, world, wide world, globe, creation, solar system, galaxy, outer space
    system, structure, totality, entirety, complex

Derivatives

  • macrocosmic

  • adjective makrə(ʊ)ˈkɒzmɪk
    • Therefore, we moved from a microcosmic view of the construction and maintenance of power dynamics to a macrocosmic view.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As a Pisces, your consciousness is more comfortable when it's attuned to the macrocosmic perspective.
      • At a macrocosmic level, to believe in the efficacy of passing was to endorse the assumption that mobility and ameliorative (as well as destructive) potential were racially contingent.
      • Eventually the story leaves the visible universe and enters the realm of the big bang, where macrocosmic structures find their origins in the microcosmic physics of subatomic particles.
      • Though Shaun eventually gets wise to the crisis, his pressing problem on the macrocosmic level is compounded by more prosaic hassles and neuroses.
  • macrocosmically

  • adverb maˈkɒzmɪk(ə)li
    • But whether we see it macrocosmically or microcosmically, one thing is certain.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Look at the human race macrocosmically.
      • To know about the Holocaust is to view it macrocosmically, as a historical event full of dates, names and hideous numbers.
      • Shonibare uses this microcosmically to depict his own life experiences, and macrocosmically to encapsulate what he conceives to be the hybrid, eclectic relationship between the West and the Orient.
 
 

Definition of macrocosm in US English:

macrocosm

(also macrocosmos)
nounˈmakrōˌkäzəmˈmækroʊˌkɑzəm
  • The whole of a complex structure, especially the world or the universe, contrasted with a small or representative part of it.

    Contrasted with microcosm
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Conception of the macrocosm in the Pratyabhijna system is based on a very deep study of the microcosm.
    • The Torres Islands represent an ecological macrocosm whose two annual seasons are defined by the prevailing winds and by the periodic movement of the sun to the south and north of the thermal equator.
    • Very soon, however, junkspace becomes a virus that spreads and proliferates throughout the macrocosm.
    • Both deal with the union of the microcosm (the individual) with the macrocosm (the divine), although they might use different terminology.
    • Clearly we have no trouble building systems of thought around whatever we perceive the structure of the macrocosm to be.
    • Of course, I'm setting up a tidy opposition here between the microcosm and the macrocosm, between the political and the philosophical.
    • We must not weary of studying the microcosm if we wish rightly to understand the macrocosm of a developed economic order.
    • In order to describe the consumer vortex, we move from the microcosm to the macrocosm.
    • In my personal practice of Tai Chi I find a well executed form shifts my awareness from ego chatter to a greater sense of integration with the macrocosm.
    • Everything combined to build up belief in this parallel world, in which microcosm and macrocosm were linked by complex networks of correspondences and powers.
    • The microcosm as well as the macrocosm is based on a constant harmony of movement, from the atoms to the galaxies.
    • That sense of malaise found its way into Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika, in which, says Schultze, he enlarges that feeling of disaffection and ‘brings it into the macrocosm.’
    • Its clear globe reveals a magnified view into the pores of the leaf upon which it rests, encouraging appreciation to the macrocosm of beauty that exists at micro scale.
    • Gattaca plays off the microcosm, the inner genetic make-up of the individual as the most reductionist way of perceiving human life and the vast macrocosm.
    • If the microcosm of individual consciousness is reproduced in the macrocosm of unified consciousness, then perhaps the individual and society have their analogues in the neuron and brain respectively.
    • It included not only human beings but also everything else in the universe, through the reciprocal relationship of the human microcosm with the macrocosm of the created order.
    • The traditional linkage of human calendrical microcosms to universal historical macrocosms followed an argument in five stages.
    • Like them he believes that the macrocosm of the enormous complexity of the personality is reflected in the microcosm of every gesture, every vocalization.
    • The vision of the hexagram represents the union of the macrocosm & microcosm.
    • On return to India, he extended it to the macrocosm.
    Synonyms
    universe, cosmos, world, wide world, globe, creation, solar system, galaxy, outer space
    system, structure, totality, entirety, complex
 
 
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