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globe

noun
 
🔊/ɡləʊb/
🔊/ɡləʊb/
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  1.  
    the globe
    [singular] the world (used especially to emphasize its size)地球，世界（尤用以强调其大）
    • tourists from every corner of the globe来自世界各地的游客
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    • Athletes from every corner of the globe competed in the Games.来自世界各地的运动员在运动会上角逐。
    • Chess fans around the globe watched the match with breathless interest.全世界的国际象棋迷都屏息静气观看这场对局。
    • Motor vehicles are found all over the globe.机动车遍及世界各地。
    • She travelled the globe in search of good writers of children's stories.她到世界各地去寻找优秀的儿童故事作家。
    • The boats are capable of circling the globe in 65 days.这些船只可在 65 天内绕地球航行一周。
    • The news soon spread across the globe.消息很快传遍了全球。
    • a commercial service that will soon span the globe一项很快就会扩展到全球的商业服务
    • one of the first boats to circumnavigate the globe最早进行环球航行的船只之一
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • entire
    verb + the globe
    • span
    • circle
    • circumnavigate
    • …
    preposition
    • across the globe
    • all over the globe
    • around the globe
    • …
    phrases
    • all parts of the globe
    • every corner of the globe
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  2. [countable] an object like a ball in shape with a map of the world on its surface, usually on a stand so that it can be turned地球仪
    • A dusty old globe stood in the corner of the schoolroom.一个尘土飞扬的旧地球仪站在教室的角落。
    • Find Laos on the globe.在地球仪上找出老挝。
    • On his desk was a globe and several maps.在他的桌子上放着一个地球仪和几张地图。
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  3. [countable] a thing that is like a ball in shape 球体；球状物
  4. (also globe)
     (Australian English, New Zealand English) a light bulb (= the glass part that fits into an electric lamp, etc. to give light when it is switched on)
    • Halogen globes are being replaced with LEDs, which use 80 per cent less energy.卤素灯被LED所取代，其能耗降低了80％。
    5. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘spherical object’): from Old French, or from Latin globus.