prism
/'prizm/
📖 中文释义
- n. 棱镜, 棱柱
- [化] 棱镜
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
复数 prisms
💬 双语例句
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the US viewed the Islamic world almost exclusively through the prism of the “global war on terror.” Now, however, policymakers admit that it was precisely the persistence of secular Arab autocracies that encouraged Islamist terrorism.
They, too, see the world through a prism that makes America continue to appear essential, but no longer preeminent. Recently, a high South Korean official listed in hierarchical order the countries that mattered most in the North Korean nuclear crisis.
至于韩国,他们指望中国处理朝核危机。 他们也透过让美国显得关键但并非独霸的棱镜来观察世界。 最近,一位韩国高官以在朝核问题上的重要性的顺序从高到低列举了各国。 中国第一,接下来是美国、俄罗斯、日本以及韩国,而欧洲则榜上无名。
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- n. optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image