| 单词 | cartographer |
| 释义 | cartographer (once / 43137 pages) n Unless you’re the one guy in America who actually asks for directions, you’ve probably broken down and used a map at some point in your life. The cartographer is the person you should thank for getting you un-lost — the mapmaker. A cartographer is a person who creates maps, whether they’re of the world, the local bus routes, or buried pirate treasure. It comes to us from the Latin word charta-, which means “tablet or leaf of paper,” and the Greek word graphein, meaning to write or draw. These days, a cartographer doesn’t have to work on paper––it's all computers, making electronic maps as part of GPS software. Technically, a cartographer can make charts, too. WORD FAMILYcartographer: cartographers+/cartography: cartographer, cartographical USAGE EXAMPLESNovelist Vladimir Nabokov is not only one of the midcentury masters of prose but also, arguably, our greatest literary cartographer. Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) Whereas Ms Temelkuran seethes on the front line of Turkey’s culture war, Mr Genc is a cartographer of the battlefield. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) “In many ways Mars is better mapped than Earth, as no features are hidden from study,” says National Geographic’s planetary cartographer Matt Chwastyk. National Geographic(Oct 19, 2016) n a person who makes maps Syn|Exp|Hyper map maker Sebastian Cabot son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557) geographer an expert on geography |
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