panorama

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復(fù)數(shù):?panoramas;形容詞:?panoramic;

1. pan- + oram- + -a.
2. literally "a complete or all view".
3. => a painting on a revolving cylindrical surface.

panorama 全景

pan-,全部，所有，-orama,來自希臘語horama,看，景觀，景致，來自PIE*wer,看，感知，詞源同ware,ward.

panorama: panorama: [18] The word panorama was coined in the late 1780s by an Irish artist called Robert Barker for a method he had invented for painting a scene on the inside of a cylinder in such a way that its perspective would seem correct to someone viewing it from inside the cylinder. He put his invention into practice in 1793 when he opened his ‘Panorama’, a large building in Leicester Square, London where the public could come and gaze at such all-encompassing scenes. By the early years of the 19th century the word (formed from the prefix pan- ‘a(chǎn)ll’ and Greek hórāma ‘view’, a derivative of horān ‘see’) had acquired all its modern extended meanings.
panorama (n.): 1796, "a painting on a revolving cylindrical surface," coined c. 1789 by inventor, Irish artist Robert Barker, literally "a complete view," from pan- "all" + Greek horama "sight, spectacle, that which is seen," from horan "to look, see," possibly from PIE root *wer- (4) "to perceive" (see ward (n.)). Meaning "comprehensive survey" is 1801.

1. There is a superb panorama of the mountains from the hotel.: 從旅館可飽覽峰巒疊嶂的雄偉景觀。

2. As I opened the scroll, a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.: 我打開卷軸時, 黃河的景象展現(xiàn)在眼前.

4. Horton looked out over a panorama of fertile valleys and gentle hills.: 霍頓向外望去，肥沃的谷地和平緩的丘陵盡收眼底。

5. From the summit there is a superb panorama of the Alps.: 從峰巔俯瞰,阿爾卑斯山壯麗的景色盡收眼底.