Atlas

['ætləs] 美式发音

(noun.) a figure of a man used as a supporting column.

(noun.) the 1st cervical vertebra.

(noun.) a collection of maps in book form.

(noun.) (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.

手打:莫林

• The same observer has recently found great moraines at a low level on the Atlas range in North Africa. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But the atlas and political history of a time do not show what is being made, but what has been made, and what is still going on. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Close at hand are two encyclop?dias, a dictionary, an atlas of the world, a biographical dictionary, and other books of reference. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You have not courage to confront the sleepless dragon; you have not craft to borrow the aid of Atlas. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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