map

英 [mæp] 美 [mæp]

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※ 提供单词"map"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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.

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.

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1. We drove east to Rostock, where my map led me astray.: 我们驱车向东去罗斯托克，但地图却给我指错了方向。

5. We didn't have satnav, so the traditional map and compass took over.: 我们没有卫星导航系统，因此使用了传统的地图加指南针。