mantle

英 [ˈmæntl]

美 [ˈmæntl]

n.  (可继承的)责任，职责，衣钵; 覆盖层; (尤指旧时的)披风，斗篷
v.  覆盖; 遮盖

复数：mantles　过去式：mantled　现在分词：mantling　过去分词：mantled　第三人称单数：mantles　

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Collins.1 / BNC.7950 / COCA.9827

牛津词典

noun

• （可继承的）责任，职责，衣钵
  the role and responsibilities of an important person or job, especially when they are passed on from one person to another
  1. The vice-president must now take on the mantle of supreme power.
     副总统现在必须承担起最高权力的重任。
• 覆盖层
  a layer of sth that covers a surface
  1. hills with a mantle of snow
     白雪覆盖的山峦
• （尤指旧时的）披风，斗篷
  a loose piece of clothing without sleeves, worn over other clothes, especially in the past
• （煤气灯的）白炽罩
  a cover around the flame of a gas lamp that becomes very bright when it is heated
• 地幔
  the part of the earth below the crust and surrounding the core

verb

• 覆盖；遮盖
  to cover the surface of sth

柯林斯词典

• N-SING (指某一职业或要职的)责任，职责
  If you take onthe mantle ofsomething such as a profession or an important job, you take on the responsibilities and duties which must be fulfilled by anyone who has this profession or job.
  1. Glasgow has broadened its appeal since taking on the mantle of European City of Culture in 1990...
     自从1990年荣获“欧洲文化之都”的光荣称号以来，格拉斯哥的魅力大增。
  2. She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership.
     她具备担当领导职责的聪明才智。
• N-COUNT 覆盖物;幕;罩
  Amantleof something is a layer of it covering a surface, for example a layer of snow on the ground.
  1. The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.
     在一层烟尘的笼罩之下，公园和广场显得阴沉沉的。
• （旧时的）披风，斗篷
  Amantleis a piece of clothing without sleeves that people used to wear over their other clothes in former times.
• See also:mantel

英英释义

noun

• a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
  Synonym:cape
• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
  Synonym:curtaindrapedraperypall
• shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
  1. in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece
  Synonym:mantelmantelpiecemantlepiecechimneypiece
• (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
  Synonym:pallium
• the cloak as a symbol of authority
  1. place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders
• anything that covers
  1. there was a blanket of snow
  Synonym:blanket
• the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

verb

• cover like a mantle
  1. The ivy mantles the building
• spread over a surface, like a mantle

双语例句

• The issue of upper vs whole mantle convection is critically discussed.
  最后，着重讨论了上地幔与全地幔对流的论争。
• The results show electric property structure of the crust and upper mantle clearly.
  揭示了该剖面地壳上地幔电性结构特征，并进行了划分。
• Glasgow has broadened its appeal since taking on the mantle of European City of Culture in 1990
  自从1990年荣获“欧洲文化之都”的光荣称号以来，格拉斯哥的魅力大增。
• The trees were clothed in a white mantle of frost.
  树披上了一层白霜的服装。
• This adds to the evidence for the presence of partial melting only in the crust instead of in the mantle in this area.
  这从另一方面佐证了部分熔融仅存在于地壳内而不是地幔中。
• The flora of the Himalayas, the Palaeozoic era a cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome.
  喜马拉雅山的、古生代的植物系.古罗马时代男人披的斗篷或披风。
• Fault belts can make high-conductive of the crust and upper mantle up and down.
  在断裂带附近受构造活动影响，低阻高导构造层会发生上下错断与缺失。
• The mesosphere comprises the rest of the mantle below the asthenosphere.
  中间圈包括软流圈以下地幔的其余部分。
• Both island arc and mid-ocean ridge magmas apparently come from the mantle yet they have different compositions.
  岛弧和洋中脊火山岩都明显来自地幔然而他们有不懂的组成。
• Basalt have importance meanings on deduce the Earth's mantle material composition, analysis tectonic environment and the geosphere deep dynamics research.
  玄武岩在反演地幔物质成分、分析构造环境和岩石圈的深部动力学研究中具有重要意义。