tropic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.

— O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]
The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.

形容词 adj.

Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.; Hot and humid. rare
Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate. not-comparable

— The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is allosterically regulated by various tropic factors, such as BPG and acidity.
Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.

— This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…]

词形变化

tropics plural trop. alternative,abbreviation tropick alternative,obsolete Tropic alternative more tropic comparative most tropic superlative trop. alternative,abbreviation tropick alternative,obsolete Tropic alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

Afrotropic Northern Tropic Southern Tropic tropicbird Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn boreotropic dual-tropic extratropic heterotropic intertropic intertropical laeotropic neotropic nosotropic semitropical subtropic subtropical subtropics tropic acid tropical tropic hormone tropin

词源

词源 1

From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).

词源 2

From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).