mantle

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1 take on/assume/wear the mantle of something formalRESPONSIBLE to accept or have an important duty or job 承担/负有…的责任[义务]

It is up to Europe to take on the mantle of leadership in environmental issues.

在环境问题上欧洲应该担当起领导责任。

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take on/assume/wear the mantle of something• Against all expectations, it has not taken on the mantle of best pupil in the euro class.

2 a mantle of snow/darkness etc literaryCOVER something such as snow or darkness that covers a surface or area 一层雪/一片黑暗等

A mantle of snow lay on the trees.

树上银装素裹。

3. [countableC]DCC a loose piece of outer clothing without sleeves, worn especially in former times 〔旧时穿的〕披风，斗篷

4. [countableC]DT a cover that is put over the flame of a gas or oil lamp to make it shine more brightly 〔煤气灯或油灯的〕白炽罩

5. [singular] technicalHE the part of the Earth around the central core 地幔 →4 See picture of 见图 GLOBE →5 see picture at 见图 earth1

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mantle• Now he is giving himself the chance to be chosen by direct election again, thus gaining a mantle of legitimacy.• In this view, hot, insulated mantle wells up beneath a supercontinent, causing it to balloon upward.• Then another, smaller concentration shows up near the top of the lower mantle, around 745 miles down.• Inside this box, the hot, red upwellings of the mantle moved past cold, blue downwellings.• It extended the web of relationships under the mantle of a few comprehensive terms of relationship connoting close, primordial loyalties.

mantle2 verb [transitiveT]

literaryCOVER to cover the surface of something 覆盖

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mantle• I turned aside to hide the joy that I could feel mantling my cheeks.• This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone, but is no more than a few metres thick at most.

Origin mantle1

(800-900) Old French mantel, from Latin mantellum “cloak”

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