English Dictionary

microcosm

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmaɪ.kɹə(ʊ)ˌkɒz.əm/

名詞

廃用

Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe; man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature. / (obsolete) The human body; a person.

日本語の意味

小宇宙：宇宙全体を小規模に縮めたものとしての人間の性質や人体を指す概念。 / （旧来の意味）人体そのもの、または１人の人を指す

The aging poet saw the village as a microcosm of human nature, where small gestures mirrored the vastness of the world.

年老いた詩人は、その村を人間性の縮図と見なし、小さな仕草が世界の広がりを映していると感じた。

意味（1）

Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe; man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature.

The Christian humanists were emphatic in their demand that a man who wishes to understand himself must realize that he is a little world that reflects on a smaller scale the larger world of the universe. […] On the other hand, the whole idea of man as a microcosm was questioned by those who were not in sympathy with the Christian humanists.

意味（2）

(obsolete) The human body; a person.

If you see this in the Map of my Microcosme, followes it that I am knowne well enough too?

意味（3）

A smaller system which is seen as representative of a larger one.

‘In a sense, the problems experienced at Bristol are like a microcosm of what is happening in the NHS - experienced surgeons battling against difficult circumstances, with inadequate resources and in a culture where the finding of scapegoats appears to be put before the finding of solutions.’

意味（4）

(ecology) A small natural ecosystem; an artificial ecosystem set up as an experimental model.

The method is relatively labour intensive (24-30 microcosms are run) and more difficult to interpret when compared with other microcosm methods (Shannon et al. 1986; Cairns & Cherry 1993).

microcosms （ plural ）