首页英语词典mapmap的意思

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英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词chart

vt. 映射；计划；绘制地图；确定基因在染色体中的位置
n. 地图；示意图；染色体图
vi. 基因被安置
n. (Map)人名；(法)马普

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词态变化

复数: maps;第三人称单数: maps;过去式: mapped;过去分词: mapped;现在分词: mapping;

助记提示

1. map => mop, nap-.
2. nap- => napkin, napery, nappy, apron (a naperon => an aperon => an apron).

中文词源

map 地图

缩写自拉丁语mappa mundi,世界地图，来自mappa,桌布，布料，词源同mop,napkin,apron.因早期地图绘制于布上而得名。mundi,世界的，词源同mundane.

英英释意

1. a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

2. a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set

英文词源

map: map: [16] Map is closely related to apron and napkin. It comes from Latin mappa, which denoted a ‘cloth’, ‘towel’, ‘sheet’, ‘table-cloth’, etc. This was used in the expression mappa mundī, literally ‘sheet of the world’, which referred to a graphical representation of the earth’s surface – a ‘map’, in other words.
=> apron, napkin
map (n.): 1520s, shortening of Middle English mapemounde "map of the world" (late 14c.), and in part from Middle French mappe, shortening of Old French mapemonde, both English and French words from Medieval Latin mappa mundi "map of the world;" first element from Latin mappa "napkin, cloth" (on which maps were drawn), "tablecloth, signal-cloth, flag," said by Quintilian to be of Punic origin (compare Talmudic Hebrew mappa, contraction of Mishnaic menaphah "a fluttering banner, streaming cloth") + Latin mundi "of the world," from mundus "universe, world" (see mundane). Commonly used 17c. in a figurative sense of "epitome; detailed representation." To put (something) on the map "bring it to wide attention" is from 1913.
map (v.): 1580s, from map (n.). Related: Mapped, mapping. To map (something) out in the figurative sense is from 1610s.

同义词辨析

chart, map, graph

这些名词均有"地图，图"之意。

chart：指航海地图，也指图表。

map：指标有国家大小、城市、铁路、河流、山脉、海洋等的地图。

graph：多指用纵横坐标之间关系的曲线表示两个量之间的图表。

考试真题

What factors make you more or less bold, intelligent, or able to read a map?

The ultimate social network is still being mapped out, but Christakis says: "People are interconnected, so their health is interconnected.

They will serve as modem Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine.

Standford University has hired a student-run company to design applications like a campus map and directory for the iPhone.

Cerling's team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences.

Often, they do not map that easily.

They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.

I absent-mindedly turned the pages of the phone book and came across a city map.

Two- and three-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustrating how sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research.

The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

Archaeologists commonly use computers to map sites and the landscapes around sites.

Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.

词组搭配

off the map

(of a place) very distant or remote

偏远的，遥远的

just a hick town, right off the map.
不过是个乡村小镇，上不了地图。

put something on the map

bring something to prominence

使…出名

the exhibition put Cubism on the map.
这次展览使立体派出了名。

wipe something off the map

obliterate something totally

彻底消除

map something out

plan a route or course of action in detail

筹划，作详细计划

I mapped out a route over familiar country near home.
我费心计划了一条离家很近的路线，沿途是熟悉的乡村。

put on the map

To make well-known, prominent, or famous.

使…闻名，使…杰出或著名

wipe off the map

To destroy completely; annihilate.

完全毁灭；消灭

实用场景例句

a map of France: 法国地图

a street map of Miami: 迈阿密街区图

to read a/the map (= understand the information on a map): 查看地图

large-scale maps: 大比例尺地图

Can you find Black Hill on the map ?: 你能在地图上找到布莱克山吗？

I'll draw you a map of how to get to my house.: 我给你画一张到我家的路线图。

The exhibition has helped put the city on the map.: 展览会使这个城市名扬四方。

an unexplored region that has not yet been mapped: 一个尚未绘制地图的未经勘察的地区

It is now possible to map the different functions of the brain.: 现在已有可能了解大脑的各种功能。

[不可数名词]the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: 印度次大陆地图的绘制

gene mapping: 基因图的绘制

Grammar information enables students to map the structure of a foreign language onto their own.: 语法知识使学生能够把外语结构和母语结构联系起来。

He has his career path clearly mapped out.: 他精心规划了自己的前途。

He unfolded the map and set it on the floor...: 他打开地图，放在了地板上。

Have you got a map of the city centre?: 你有市中心的地图吗？

...geological maps, books and atlases.: 地质图、书籍与地图册

...weather maps on television.: 电视上的气象图

...a spacecraft which is using radar to map the surface of Venus.: 使用雷达绘制金星表面地图的宇宙飞船

...better mapping of the ocean floor.: 对海底地形的更精确绘制

...the attempts of the Edinburgh Festival's organisers to put C.P. Taylor firmly on the map...: 爱丁堡艺术节的组织者们为使C.P.泰勒名扬四海所作的努力

This could put cider back on the map as one of our great national drinks.: 这样可以让苹果酒再度名扬四方，成为我们重要的国酒之一。

The complexity of the road map puzzled me.: 错综复杂的公路图把我搞糊涂了.

The map of the heavens showed all the northern constellations.: 这份天体图标明了北半部所有的星座.

The map on the wall is a bit crooked.: 墙上的地图有些歪.

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