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world-building

/wurld-bil-ding/US // ˈwɜrldˌbɪl dɪŋ //

世界建设,世界观建设,世界观的建立,世界的建设

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the process of developing a detailed and plausible fictional world for a novel or story, especially in science fiction, fantasy, and video games: Drawing a convincing map with boundaries and landscape features is a natural starting point for world-building.

Examples

  • The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.

  • Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.

  • People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

  • Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.

  • All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

  • There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.

  • That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?

  • The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.