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Related topics: Astronomy
world1 /wɜːld $ wɜːrld/ ●●● S1 W1 noun  
1  OUR PLANET/EVERYONE ON IT 地球/全人类the world SGWORLDthe planet we live on, and all the people, cities, and countries on it 世界，地球 → earth
 Tuberculosis is still common in some parts of the world.
结核病在世界上某些地区仍很常见。
 At that time China was the most powerful country in the world.
当时中国是世界上最强大的国家。
 the world’s tallest building
世界上最高的建筑
 The Taj Mahal attracts visitors from around the world.
泰姬陵吸引了来自世界各地的游客。
 Students from all over the world come to study at Oxford.
世界各地的学生到牛津大学来求学。
 Children are the same the world over.
全世界的孩子都一样。
 The book has been published throughout the world.
这本书已在世界各地出版。
 There is nothing quite like it anywhere in the world.
世界上任何地方都找不出和它类似的东西。
 Europe’s relationship with the rest of the world
欧洲和世界上其他地区的关系
 I decided to take a year off to travel the world.
我决定休息一年去周游世界。
 a crime that shocked the world
震惊全世界的罪行
n Grammar
You say in the world:
the fastest sports car in the world
✗Don’t say:
the fastest sports car in world | the fastest sport car on the world
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the world• the world's oldest tree• Scientists around the world have been conducting similar experiments.• The ceremony was seen on television around the world.• For South Africa, and indeed for the whole world, 1990 was a year of great change.• At age 116, she was believed to be one of the oldest people in the world.• In some parts of the world, clean drinking water is very scarce.• You can buy Coca-Cola all over the world.• John renounced the world when he became a monk.• It's the world's tallest building.• The two countries are trying to work out a peace deal with the whole world watching.
2  in the world EMPHASIZEused to emphasize what you are saying 世上；究竟，到底〔用于强调〕
the happiest/most exciting etc ... in the world
 I’m the luckiest man in the world!
我是世上最幸运的人！
 Bali is my favourite place in the whole world.
巴厘岛是我最最喜欢的地方。
 Off he went, without a care in the world (=not worried about anything at all).
他啥也不管就走了。
 Nothing in the world (=nothing at all) can save them now.
现在什么也救不了他们。
 Don’t worry, we’ve got all the time in the world (=plenty of time so you do not need to hurry).
别担心，我们有的是时间。
what/who/where/how etc in the world ...? (=used when you are very surprised or annoyed) 究竟是什么/是谁/在哪儿/怎么样等…？〔用于表示很惊讶或恼怒〕
 What in the world are you doing here at seven in the morning?
你早上7点钟在这儿到底干什么？
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in the world• Wherever you are in the world, that Rockwool product will more than match the specification.• Why won't I admit that I must have the shortest arms in the world?• At that time China was the most powerful country in the world.• Friendship was viewed as one of the major keys to goodness in the world.• I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.• I was in a soap opera for a while where I was the nicest guy in the world.• S schools to raise their proficiency in science and math to the highest levels in the world.• All I do is try to live in the world, but the world done gone crazy.• He was the last person in the world who would understand.
3  the society we live in 我们生活的社会SOCIETY [singular] the society that we live in, the way people behave, and the kind of life we have 社会；生活
 Parents want a better world for their children.
父母都希望孩子有更好的天地。
the world
 The world is being transformed by information technology.
信息技术正在改变世界。
 You had to go into politics if you wanted to change the world.
你若是想改变世界就必须从政。
in an ideal/perfect world (=used to say how you would like things to be) 在理想的/完美的世界
 In an ideal world, we would be able to recycle everything.
在理想世界里，任何东西都可以循环使用。
the real world (=the way life really is, not how people would like it to be or imagine it) 现实生活
 In the real world, things are never quite so simple.
现实生活中事情从来都不是那么简单的。
what is the world coming to? (=used to say that you do not like the way society is changing) 这世道怎么了？
 Five pounds just to park your car! I don’t know what the world’s coming to.
停停车就要五英镑！这世道怎么了？
4  COUNTRY/NATIONgroup of countries 国家集团 [singular] a particular group of countries 〔某一类国家组成的〕世界
5  time in history 历史时期 [singular] a particular period in history 〔特定的〕历史时期
6  SB’s life and experiences 某人的生活和经历 [countableC]LIFE the life and experiences of a particular person or group of people 生活，生活经历
7  area of activity/work 活动/工作的领域 [countableC usually singular]COUNTRY/NATION a particular area of activity or work, and the people who are involved in it 〔人们活动或工作的〕领域，界
8  NATURE/ANIMALS/PLANTS 自然/动物/植物the natural/animal/plant world HBLIVING/ALIVEall of nature, or all animals or plants considered as a group 自然界/动物界/植物界
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the natural/animal/plant world• He can live in and accept the natural world, yet his soul lofts upward.• In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.• It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world.• Similarly, these continuing contests in the natural world were leading to areas which were specialised in their functions.• We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world.• However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man's objectivist view of the natural world.• The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.
9  place/situation 地方/情况SITUATION [countableC usually singular] a particular kind of place or situation, especially one that someone describes or which you imagine 〔尤指某人描述或想象的〕地方，情景
10  another planet 别的星球 [countableC]HA a place like the Earth in another part of the universe where other things may live 〔可能存在其他生物的〕天体，星球
11  STH is very different 某事物很不相同 [countableC] used in the following phrases to emphasize that something is very different 〔用于以下短语强调某事物大不相同〕
12  the outside world OUT/OUTSIDEthe people who live outside a particular place or country – used when the people of that place or country do not often meet other people 外面的世界，外界
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the outside world• Hong Kong constitutes a critical economic gateway between the mainland and the outside world.• What if the outside world was unaware of what was happening at Heymouth?• In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.• She is not afraid of the outside world, but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.• It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.• Such pets will be fully animated robots, in constant communication with the outside world in order to serve you.• It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world.• Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems.
13  the material world real things, rather than ideas and beliefs 物质世界
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the material world• His followers are to trust in the goodness and providence of their heavenly father and abandon their care about the material world.• The members of the second were practical men who were leaders and men of action in the material world.• These are no doubt spiritual matters, but they have their analogue in the material world.• Such scientists refuse to admit that here they are dealing with another level or scale of being in the material world.• For Marx the material world is the ultimate reality.• The child's actions on the material world also provide a stimulus for conceptual development.• Flash heat, volcanism, lightning, wind, and waves all renew the material world.• That meant he could project his spirit as he slept, and wander the material world and even the spirit lands.
14  for all the world as if/as though/like literarySEEM exactly as if or exactly like 活像；完全像
15  out of this world informalGOOD/EXCELLENT extremely good, enjoyable etc 好得不得了
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out of this world• He has to be from out of this world to spring all that on me.
16  do somebody a/the world of good to be very good for someone’s health or mental state 对某人很有好处
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do somebody a/the world of good• Not only do they do you a world of good if you drink them but they also have cosmetic uses.• He could become so unaccountably miserable that a small amount of collusion some-times did him a world of good.• But physically - this type of exercise will do you the world of good.• All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good.• Come on a Club 18-30 holiday and there's every chance it will do you the world of good.• A week by the ocean will do you a world of good.• All of them stressed that a holiday would do Valerie the world of good.• A good run in pastures new would do you a world of good.
17  in a world of your own/in your own little world used to say that someone seems to spend a lot of time thinking or imagining things, and does not seem to notice what is happening around them 生活在自己的（小）天地里
18  mean the world to somebody/think the world of somebody if someone or something means the world to you, or if you think the world of them, they are very important to you and you love or respect them very much 对某人非常重要/非常喜欢[尊敬]某人[某物]
19  somebody would give the world to do something used to say that someone would like to do something very much 某人迫切想做某事
20. be/feel on top of the world informalHAPPY to feel extremely happy 快活之极
Examples from the Corpus
be/feel on top of the world• In the spring of 1995, Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world.
21. be a man/woman of the world EXPERIENCEDto be someone who has had many experiences and is not easily shocked 是阅历丰富的人，是见过世面的人
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be a man/woman of the world• Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
22  not for the world NOTused to emphasize that you would not do something 决不，无论如何也不
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not for the world• I wouldn't hurt Amy for the world.• Rescripts were often penned for a case, and not for the world at large.• Gentlemen, I would not for the world be judge in a cause in which I am one party among three.• I would not for the world keep him from his rest.
23  the world is your oyster LIMITthere is no limit to the opportunities that someone has 前途无量，前程似锦
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the world is your oyster• The world is her oyster but she dreams of being a librarian.• After that, the world is your oyster, as they say.
24  have the world at your feet 
25  go up/come down in the world CLASS IN SOCIETYto move to a higher or lower position in society 升到更高/跌到较低的社会地位；发迹/落魄
26  set the world on fire/alight spokenSUCCESSFUL to have a big effect or be very successful 引起轰动；大获成功
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set the world on fire/alight• And now we have Sliver which was the subject of much wrangling and hasn't exactly set the world on fire.• But if Rhodes hasn't set the world on fire with his batting, he certainly has with his fielding.• Either way, the speed and acceleration is not going to set the world on fire.• None of the three papers was going to set the world on fire.• It was a lovely accomplishment, of course, but nothing to set the world on fire with.• The sonorities glow, and the whole thing is user-friendly without setting the world on fire.
27  set/put the world to rights DISCUSSto discuss or say how the world should be changed to make people’s lives better 谈论如何改变世界，指点江山
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set/put the world to rights• That straightness of Time, that confining straightness, was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights.• More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.• He wanted to put the world to rights.
28  the Michael Jacksons/Mother Teresas/Microsofts etc of this world spokenTYPE used to talk about a particular kind of person or group, by using one person or group as an example 迈克尔•杰克逊/特蕾莎修女/微软公司等一类人 [团体]〔用于举例谈论某一类人或团体〕
29. think the world owes you a living to think that you should not have to work and that other people will provide you with everything you need – used to show disapproval 认为整个世界都欠你的〔含贬义〕
30. think (that) the world revolves around you to think that you are the most important person and everyone else should only be interested in making sure that you have what you want – used to show disapproval 认为世界围着自己转，认为自己是最重要的〔含贬义〕
31  the world and his wife British EnglishBrE everyone or anybody – used when you want to emphasize that a lot of people do something or anyone can do something 人人；很多人
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the world and his wife• Now all the world and his wife seems to have heard of them!• Only all the world and his wife, if I know Igor.• It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid.• Nick and Clem will have invited half the world and his wife, anyway.• The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.• This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on.
32. come into the world literary to be born 降生，来到这个世上
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come into the world• He looked as if he came into the world fighting.• He gave her a child every year, but was never there when it came into the world.
33. bring a child into the world literary to have a baby, or help a baby to be born 把一个孩子带到这个世上〔指分娩或接生〕
34. somebody is not long for this world literary used to say that someone is likely to die soon 某人将不久于人世
35  NORMAL LIFE 普通的生活the world normal life in society, as opposed to a religious way of life, especially in a monastery etc 尘世，世俗
→ best of both worlds at best3(7), → be dead to the world at dead1(9), → it’s not the end of the world at end1(18), → New World, Third World
n COLLOCATIONS
phrases
part of the world
This part of the world was new to her.
the rest of the world
How will this affect Britain and the rest of the world?
phrases
the best/tallest etc in the world
We want to become the best team in the world.
the world’s best/tallest etc
It is the world’s largest car manufacturer.
around/across the world (=in many parts of the world)
We have 950 customers around the world.
all over/throughout the world (=in every part of the world)
The city attracts visitors from all over the world.
adjectives
the whole/entire world
Today the whole world is threatened with pollution.
verbs
travel the world
He spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
see the world (=travel to different parts of the world)
He quit his job to see the world.
save the world (=help people in the world)
She’s doing her bit to save the world.
lead the world (=be the most successful in the world)
Britain leads the world in defence electronics.
Examples from the Corpus
world• Heron's book was widely copied in the ancient world.• strange creatures from another world• the fast-paced business world• Jaffrii is now one of the richest and most successful men in the business world.• Our public schools are among the worst in the developed world.• the fashion world• Why here, why Stalinvast, and not some other world?• the fast-paced world of technology• Alvin's world was full of dance and music.• We thought we could change the world then.• I have been blotted out from the world.• She lost any sense of time, knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing.• the world of the Anglo-Saxons• the Western world
in an ideal/perfect world• I also have an idealized picture of myself - what I would like to be in an ideal world.• But we don't live in a perfect world.• To go onstage in the flag is to be a 50p magnet, nomatterwhat it might mean in an ideal world.• This was an unusual arrangement which might have worked in a perfect world.
the Western/Arab etc world• As for the Arab world, their response as we were negotiating these agreements was to be expected.• Chess is sort of considered in the Western world as the premier intellectual game.• He developed the concept of an open market within the Community to create the largest single market in the Western world.• Molecular biology of colorectal neoplasia Large bowel cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world.• The daily broadsheet circulates widely in the Arab world and among Arabs living in the West.• If they are ever opened, the Hunterston plants would be among the first direct reduction iron works in the Western world.• This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces.• The speech was warmly endorsed throughout the Arab world.
the modern/ancient world• Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world.• It may be that increasing industrialism made the modern world an uglier, less attractive subject.• The Labyrinth at Knossos is generally recognized to have been one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world.• Their lives were now confronted by earthshaking change, by the arrival of the modern world.• Part of the moulding-power of the modern world is its ability to leave us all blasé.• The technology of the modern world has derived, in good measure, from a great wealth of empirical experience.• Not everyone, however, welcomes the return of primal spirituality to the modern world.• His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.
world of• Truong found himself living in a world of poverty and uncertainty.• the world of fashion
the world of politics/business/work etc• In the early 1980s, the world of work at Sparta underwent a drastic change.• The world of politics is next.• Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring.• We will reinforce the rights of the individual in the world of work, and break down artificial barriers to advancement.• Performers in one of the most successful, longest-running shows in the world of business.• In the world of work, this is one of the distinctions between the professional and the technician.• Any disruption they suffer should be counteracted by your enhanced awareness of the world of work.• We often speak of climbing the ladder don't we when it comes to the world of work or material success.
another world• Sometimes he was so distant that he seemed to be in another world.• And I am now in another world!• You appreciate that there is a fair chance that you might find yourself prematurely in another world?• Nature is full of icons or images that reveal glimpses into another world.• Is Michael Johnson going to set another world record?• You want me to be your gateway to another world?• But further along the branch was another world.• It was another world, and he knew he would now have to seek advice from an expert.
a world of difference• This is only two miles from the bustling West End - but there is a world of difference.• There is a world of difference between emotional blankness and immorality.• He made a world of difference to the Leeds defence.• After all, the right network can make a world of difference to your business.• During these golden years of instruction, parents can make a world of difference by staying engaged and supportive.• A short note of encouragement would make a world of difference right now.• It makes a world of difference when there is a lot of electricity in the air.• There's a world of difference between owning a gun and using it.• But there was a world of difference between wanting and loving.
world2 ●●○ adjectiveadj [only before noun]  
1  WORLDexisting in, involving, or affecting all or most countries in the world 遍及[影响]全世界的
2  POWERa world figure is one of the most important people in the world 〔人物〕在世界范围内举足轻重的
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world• The ice skating show features twelve Olympic and world champions.• The Denver Broncos have won the world championship.• Jones is a world expert in genetics.• The present conflict is a threat to world peace.• At that time Britain was a major world power.• Islam is one of the great world religions.• The top 50 multi-national companies control about 80% of world trade.
the World Cup/Championships etc• Maradona's punch helped his side to the World Cup.• Think: between the hedges meets the World Cup.• The three legs of the World Cup can take enough out of a horse without subjecting it to too much unnecessary effort beforehand.• If Mr Moynihan is prudent, he will already be thinking ahead to the World Cup of 1994.• Nor will the World Cup of 2006 end standing.• It is enough to give anybody the World Cup willies.
world leaders• Increasingly, funding will reflect the quality of the research output so that the best centres can truly be world leaders.• Messages of condolence began arriving in New Delhi on May 22 from a host of world leaders.• The Chirac-Kohl coolness forms part of a growing pattern of strained personal relations among world leaders.• Power Not that our world leaders have much to worry about.• The pursuit of a cease-fire dominated a summit of world leaders in Moscow, meeting to discuss nuclear safety and arms proliferation.• Both Du Pont and Conoco are world leaders, in their respective sectors, in environmental protection and safety.• The media tell it whenever they present international relations as a dramatic encounter between world leaders who personify their countries.• In the meantime world leaders will enjoy the kudos of being seen to be doing something about Aids.
Origin world1
Old English woruld “human existence, this world, age”
world1 noun
→10-19
→20-35

→n GRAMMAR1 →n COLLOCATIONS1world2 adjectiveadj
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