Myopia



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 近视, 缺乏远见
• ［英］ n. 近视, 缺乏远见 ( lack of foresight or discernment)
• ［类］ 反义词: prescience ( 远见)
• ［记］ myo ( 肌肉) +op ( 光, 眼) +ia -> 眼病 -> 近视
• ［例］ I am frustrated by my supervisor's myopia.

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: New Latin, from Greek myōpia, from myōp-, myōps
• Date: circa 1752
• 1. a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects
• 2. a lack of foresight or discernment ; a narrow view of something
• ? myopic adjective
• ? myopically adverb

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