Antipodes

记忆“Antipodes”的方法可以是将它分解为“Anti”和“podes”。其中，“Anti”意味着相反，而“podes”可以联想到“podium”，即舞台。想象两个舞台相对而立，一个代表地球的一端，另一个代表另一端，这两端正好相反，这就是“Antipodes”，指地球相对的两端，即地球的南北两极或任何两个相对的点。

antipodes

antipodes: [16] Greek antípodes meant literally ‘people who have their feet opposite’ – that is, people who live on the other side of the world, and therefore have the soles of their feet ‘facing’ those of people on this side of the world. It was formed from the prefix anti- ‘against, opposite’ and poús ‘foot’ (related to English foot and pedal). English antipodes, borrowed via either French antipodes or late Latin antipodes, originally meant ‘people on the other side of the world’ too, but by the mid 16th century it had come to be used simply for the ‘opposite side of the globe’.
=> foot, pedal

antipodes (n.)

late 14c., "persons who dwell on the opposite side of the globe;" 1540s as "place on the opposite side of the earth," from Latin antipodes "those who dwell on the opposite side of the earth," from Greek antipodes, plural of antipous "with feet opposite (ours)," from anti- "opposite" (see anti-) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)); thus, people who live on the opposite side of the world.

Yonde in Ethiopia ben the Antipodes, men that haue theyr fete ayenst our fete. ["De Proprietatibus Rerum Bartholomeus Anglicus," translated by John of Trevisa, 1398]

Not to be confused with antiscii "those who live on the same meridian on opposite side of the equator," whose shadows fall at noon in the opposite direction, from Greek anti- + skia "shadow." Related: Antipodal (adj.); antipodean (1630s, n.; 1650s, adj.).

1. The antipodes of love is hatred.

爱的反面是恨.

2. Our antipodes sleep while we wake.

我们醒着的时候,我们地球背面的人却在睡觉.

3. This approach to carbonyl compounds also allows the synthesis of either optical antipodes.

这个一氧化碳合成方法也可以制备任何一个旋光对映体.

4. Two Worlds at the antipodes , in football and in life.

两个世界在相反的两方面: 足球和生活.

5. The north pole and the south pole are antipodes.

南极和北极是相对极.