primum mobile是什么意思_primum mobile的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

But superstition has been the conclusion of many states; and brings in a new primum mobile, which ravishes all the spheres of government.

但迷信使许多国家灭亡或终结，并带来一个新的最高权力——“天国”；它夺走了政府的所有领域。

释义

the central or most important source of motion or action

行动主因，原动力。

(in the medieval version of the Ptolemaic system)an outer sphere supposed to move round the earth in 24 hours carrying the inner spheres with it

第十层天（中世纪托勒密天动说中被认为二十四小时绕地球旋转、托载内层天体的外层天体）。

词源

" from medieval Latin, literally ‘first moving thing’. "