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阿基米德

Ājīmǐdé
proper noun #36,353

Meanings

  1. 1 Archimedes, Greek mathematician and inventor

About Archimedes

c. 287–212 BC · 科学家 scientist

Greek mathematician and inventor from Syracuse. Chinese schoolbooks teach his law of buoyancy, 阿基米德原理, the bath where he cried "Eureka!", and his boast that with a fulcrum he could lift the earth.

Examples

HSK 7-9
阿基米德发现了浮力定律。
Ājīmǐdé fāxiàn le fúlì dìnglǜ.
Archimedes discovered the principle of buoyancy.
HSK 7-9
他被誉为现代的阿基米德。
Tā bèi yùwéi xiàndài de Ājīmǐdé.
He is hailed as a modern-day Archimedes.

Tips

culture
His supposed last words to the Roman soldier who killed him are known in Chinese as 别打扰我的圆圈, 'don't disturb my circles', though no ancient account records them. His tomb was said to show a sphere inside a cylinder, his favourite proof.
memory
Read it in two halves: 阿基 for 'Archi-' and 米德 for '-medes', with the final s left out.

Stroke Order

阿 ā
基 jī
米 mǐ
德 dé