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Antipodes

[æn'tɪpə,diz]

n. 新西蘭和澳大利亞（形容詞antipodean）

英語詞源

antipodes

antipodes: [16] Greek antípodes meant literally ‘people who have their feet opposite’ – that is, people who live on the other side of the world, and therefore have the soles of their feet ‘facing’ those of people on this side of the world. It was formed from the prefix anti- ‘against, opposite’ and poús ‘foot’ (related to English foot and pedal). English antipodes, borrowed via either French antipodes or late Latin antipodes, originally meant ‘people on the other side of the world’ too, but by the mid 16th century it had come to be used simply for the ‘opposite side of the globe’.

=> foot, pedal

antipodes (n.)

late 14c., "persons who dwell on the opposite side of the globe;" 1540s as "place on the opposite side of the earth," from Latin antipodes "those who dwell on the opposite side of the earth," from Greek antipodes, plural of antipous "with feet opposite (ours)," from anti- "opposite" (see anti-) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)); thus, people who live on the opposite side of the world.

Yonde in Ethiopia ben the Antipodes, men that haue theyr fete ayenst our fete. ["De Proprietatibus Rerum Bartholomeus Anglicus," translated by John of Trevisa, 1398]

Not to be confused with antiscii "those who live on the same meridian on opposite side of the equator," whose shadows fall at noon in the opposite direction, from Greek anti- + skia "shadow." Related: Antipodal (adj.); antipodean (1630s, n.; 1650s, adj.).

權威例句

1. The antipodes of love is hatred.

愛的反面是恨.

2. Our antipodes sleep while we wake.

我們醒着的時候,我們地球背面的人卻在睡覺.

3. This approach to carbonyl compounds also allows the synthesis of either optical antipodes.

這個一氧化碳合成方法也可以製備任何一個旋光對映體.

4. Two Worlds at the antipodes , in football and in life.

兩個世界在相反的兩方面: 足球和生活.

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5. The north pole and the south pole are antipodes.

南極和北極是相對極.

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