| 英语单词 | axis |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['æksɪs] 美 ['æksɪs] |
| 中文释义 | n.轴；中枢 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The earth turns (ie rotates) on its axis once every 24 hours. (2) A wheel revolves round/on its axis. (3) The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles. (4) The axis of a circle is its diameter. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 地球每24小时自转一圈。 (2) 轮子是绕轴旋转的。 (3) 地轴是南北极之间的线。 (4) 圆的轴线是其直径。 |
| vocabulary简明 | An axis is a straight line, sometimes seen, sometimes not, that is important in mathematics, art, science and our survival. The most famous axis is the one the earth spins around, giving us the 24-hour day. |
| vocabulary扩展 | In graphs, one side is usually the "X axis" and the other the "Y axis." Axis lines are also the lines that run through spheres, like our earth, around which those spheres rotate. In a totally different area, axis is used to describe countries in an alliance. In World War II, Germany, Japan and Italy were known as the Axis Powers. More recently, George W. Bush referred to Iraq, Iran, and North Korean as an Axis of Evil. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（假想的）轴；轴线 An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（坐标）轴 An axis of a graph is one of the two lines on which the scales of measurement are marked. |
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