mantle

noun

1. （可继承的）责任，职责，衣钵
   the role and responsibilities of an important person or job, especially when they are passed on from one person to another
   1. The vice-president must now take on the mantle of supreme power.
      副总统现在必须承担起最高权力的重任。
2. 覆盖层
   a layer of sth that covers a surface
   1. hills with a mantle of snow
      白雪覆盖的山峦
3. （尤指旧时的）披风，斗篷
   a loose piece of clothing without sleeves, worn over other clothes, especially in the past
4. （煤气灯的）白炽罩
   a cover around the flame of a gas lamp that becomes very bright when it is heated
5. 地幔
   the part of the earth below the crust and surrounding the core

verb

1. 覆盖；遮盖
   to cover the surface of sth

1. N-SING (指某一职业或要职的)责任，职责
   If you take on the mantle of something such as a profession or an important job, you take on the responsibilities and duties which must be fulfilled by anyone who has this profession or job.
   1. Glasgow has broadened its appeal since taking on the mantle of European City of Culture in 1990...
      自从1990年荣获“欧洲文化之都”的光荣称号以来，格拉斯哥的魅力大增。
   2. She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership.
      她具备担当领导职责的聪明才智。
2. N-COUNT 覆盖物;幕;罩
   A mantle of something is a layer of it covering a surface, for example a layer of snow on the ground.
   1. The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.
      在一层烟尘的笼罩之下，公园和广场显得阴沉沉的。
3. （旧时的）披风，斗篷
   A mantle is a piece of clothing without sleeves that people used to wear over their other clothes in former times.
4. See also: mantel

1. Glasgow has broadened its appeal since taking on the mantle of European City of Culture in 1990
   自从1990年荣获“欧洲文化之都”的光荣称号以来，格拉斯哥的魅力大增。
2. She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership.
   她具备担当领导职责的聪明才智。
3. The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.
   在一层烟尘的笼罩之下，公园和广场显得阴沉沉的。
4. This picture hangs over the mantle.
   这幅画挂在壁炉架的上方。
5. The mesosphere comprises the rest of the mantle below the asthenosphere.
   中间圈包括软流圈以下地幔的其余部分。
6. Subduction recycling process has a major effect on the dynamics and evolution of the crust and mantle.
   俯冲再循环过程对地壳、幔的动力学和演化产生深刻影响。
7. Scientists call this layer of crust and upper mantle the lithosphere.
   科学家称这层地壳和上部地幔为岩石圈。
8. The flora of the Himalayas, the Palaeozoic era a cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome.
   喜马拉雅山的、古生代的植物系.古罗马时代男人披的斗篷或披风。
9. These occur where hot magma from the Earth's liquid mantle is steadily forced through the Earth's crust.
   “火山热点”处在由地幔（又称软流层，很可能是岩浆的发源地）产生的炽热的岩浆不断地被喷出地壳的地方。
10. The issue of upper vs whole mantle convection is critically discussed.
    最后，着重讨论了上地幔与全地幔对流的论争。
11. The results show electric property structure of the crust and upper mantle clearly.
    揭示了该剖面地壳上地幔电性结构特征，并进行了划分。
12. The trees were clothed in a white mantle of frost.
    树披上了一层白霜的服装。
13. The sinking of oceanic crust at subduction zones carries water and carbon dioxide back into the mantle.
    在俯冲区洋壳下沉，又把水和二氧化碳带回地下。
14. Respiration is through the body surface or by gills in the mantle cavity or through the cavity surface itself.
    呼吸是通过体表，或外套腔的鳃进行的，或通过体腔表面进行的。
15. Earth crust, Earth mantle and the core belong to the physical class.
    地壳，地幔和核心是物理类别。
16. Fault belts can make high-conductive of the crust and upper mantle up and down.
    在断裂带附近受构造活动影响，低阻高导构造层会发生上下错断与缺失。
17. Were large igneous provinces caused by mantle plumes?
    大火成岩省是地幔柱作用引起的吗？
18. Spread over a surface, like a mantle.
    在表面上扩散象一个覆盖物。
19. Internally the earth consists of two parts, a core and a mantle.
    地球的内部由两部分组成：地核和地幔。
20. The Petrographic and Petrochemical Characteristics of the Mantle Fluid Metasomatism; Further imbrication, folding and metasomatism of the ultrabasic rocks occurred at this time.
    地幔流体交代作用的岩相学和岩石化学特征超基性岩的进一步叠瓦作用，褶曲和交代作用发生于这个时期。
21. Modeling experiment is an important method and the component part in the study of Earth's mantle convection.
    模拟实验是当前地幔对流研究中的一个重要手段，一个重要组成部分。
22. Continental mantle metasomatism: a precursory event of platform activation?
    大陆地幔交代作用：地台活化的先驱事件？
23. This adds to the evidence for the presence of partial melting only in the crust instead of in the mantle in this area.
    这从另一方面佐证了部分熔融仅存在于地壳内而不是地幔中。
24. The mantle of original rock is the base carbonate rock and transition rock.
    风化源岩即基底碳酸盐岩及其过渡岩石。
25. High-pressure metamorphic rocks form during subduction of Earth's crust to mantle depths at convergent plate margins.
    高压变质岩是在俯冲的过程中形成的，从地壳到地幔，深度不等的聚合板块边缘。
26. Both island arc and mid-ocean ridge magmas apparently come from the mantle yet they have different compositions.
    岛弧和洋中脊火山岩都明显来自地幔然而他们有不懂的组成。
27. Basalt have importance meanings on deduce the Earth's mantle material composition, analysis tectonic environment and the geosphere deep dynamics research.
    玄武岩在反演地幔物质成分、分析构造环境和岩石圈的深部动力学研究中具有重要意义。
28. REE and trace elements indicate that fluid came from enriched mantle.
    稀土和微素元素地球化学研究显示流体源自富集地幔；
29. Using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, the protein of whole mantle of patterned and non-patterned Meretrix meretrix, from Yueqing, Zhejiang, East China, was studied in mass spectrometry.
    采用双向电泳技术，对浙江乐清无花纹和有花纹文蛤外套膜的全蛋白进行了研究，并利用质谱和软件对差异蛋白进行了分析。
30. The results show that the crust and upper mantle structures present obvious lateral and vertical inhomogeneity.
    结果表明，地壳上地幔结构在纵向和横向上具有明显的不均匀性。

noun

1. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

   Synonym:    cape

2. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

   Synonym:    curtaindrapedraperypall

3. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
   1. in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece

   Synonym:    mantelmantelpiecemantlepiecechimneypiece

4. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

   Synonym:    pallium

5. the cloak as a symbol of authority
   1. place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

6. anything that covers
   1. there was a blanket of snow

   Synonym:    blanket

7. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

verb

1. cover like a mantle
   1. The ivy mantles the building

2. spread over a surface, like a mantle