【world音标】 英[wɜ:ld] 美[wɜ:rld]
【单词释义】 world是什么意思：
n.(the word:世界；地球；天下)；领域；尘世
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] worlds
【关联词/派生词】
worldwide adv.遍及全世界地 adj.全世界的
worldly adj. 世俗的；世间的；尘世的 adv. 世俗地；世故地
【常用短语】
all over the world adv. 全世界
in the world 在世界上；到底
【单词例句】
◇ One day the king said to his wife, "If our thirteenth child, which you are soon going to bring into the world, is a girl, then the twelve others shall die, so that her wealth may be great, and so that she alone may inherit the kingdom."
一天，国王对王后说：“你快要生第十三个孩子了。要是这个孩子是个女孩，我就下令杀掉那十二个男孩，好让她得到更多的财产，并且让她继承王位。”
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ The prince said to her, "I was changed into a frog by a wicked witch, so I had to live in the fountain. Only you could release me. No one else in the world had the power to do so.”
王子告诉她说：“我被一个坏巫婆变成一只青蛙，所以我只能住在喷水池里。只有你能解救我。世界上没有任何其他人可以办得到。”
---- The Frog Prince
◇ Then it happened one day while the queen was sitting in her bath, that a frog crept out of the water onto the ground and said to her, "Your wish shall be fulfilled, and before a year passes you will bring a daughter into the world."
有一天，王后正在河边散步，一只青蛙把头浮出水面对她说：“你的愿望就会实现了，不久你就会生下一个女儿的。”
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ But what those gestures really mean is subjective in different cultures. Thus, misunderstandings happen now and then in today’s world of cultural crossroads.
但是在不同的文化中那些手势表达的真正意思是很主观的。由此，误会就时不时地发生在今天这个文化交叉碰撞的世界里。
---- A Misunderstanding
◇ His particular sense of humor has astonished everybody throughout the world up to now.
他独特的幽默感直到现在依然使世界各地的人们都感到惊讶。
---- Chaplin - A Great Master of Humour
◇ He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong.
他走遍了全世界，想要寻到这样的一位公主。可是无论他到什么地方，他总是碰到一些障碍。
---- The Real Princess
◇ They were certainly far handsomer than those Dame Shoemaker had made for little Karen. Nothing in the world can be compared with red shoes.
比起那个女鞋匠为小珈伦做的那双鞋来，这双鞋当然是漂亮得多。世界上没有什么东西能跟红鞋比较！
---- The Red Shoes
◇ Suddenly, everything shook. It seemed as if the world was at an end.
霎那间，一切都在摇晃，似乎整个世界就要结束。
◇ Fewer people are smoking worldwide, especially women, but only one country in eight is on track to meet a target of reducing tobacco use significantly by 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
世界卫生组织本周四（2018年5月31日）表示，全球吸烟人数特别是女性吸烟者在减少，但仅有八分之一的国家有望在2025年前实现大规模减少烟草使用的目标。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ September 22, 2024 marks the start of a new season—but what exactly you should call that season depends on where in the world you are and whom you ask.
2024年9月22日（秋分）标志着新季节的开始，但是你应该如何称呼这个季节取决于你在世界上的哪个地方以及你问的是哪国人。