oblate是什么意思

双语例句

(1)The earth is an oblate sphere.

地球是一扁圆球体。

(2)Oblate strip pick, bamboo utensils carrying goods.

扁圆长条形挑、抬物品的竹木用具。

(3)The geography teacher told us that the earth is oblate.

地理老师告诉我们地球是扁平的。

(4)The geography teacher said to us, "The earth is oblate."

地理老师对我们说：“地球是扁平的。”

(5)The outward appearance like waterdrop forms the oblate body.

外观如水滴形成扁圆体。

同义词

adj. 扁圆的；扁平的；奉为神圣的

反义词

同根词

词根 oblate

(1)oblateness n. 扁圆形；[天] 扁率

(2)oblation n. 祭品，奉献物

释义

n.

a person dedicated to a religious life, but typically having not taken full monastic vows

（尤指尚未正式皈依的）修道人士，献身修会的俗人。

adj.

Geometry (of a spheroid) flattened at the poles

【几何】 （球体）椭圆的，扁圆的。常与PROLATE相对。

词源

"late 17th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin oblatus, past participle （used as a noun） of Latin offerre ‘to offer’.early 18th cent.: from modern Latin oblatus （from ob- ‘inversely’ + -latus ‘carried’）, on the pattern of Latin prolatus ‘prolonged’."