Much better than the mercator. but it’s obvious that the country shapes are totally distorted.
远远优于墨卡托。但很明显,国家的形状现在拉伸的。
TED-Ed(视频版)
In spite of its inaccuracies, Mercator's map was very useful.
尽管不准确,墨卡托的地图还是非常有用的。
TED-Ed(视频版)
Since the Mercator works for navigation and reads clearly, why bother with all these whacky maps?
既然墨卡托适用于导航并清晰阅读,为什么还要为所有这些古怪的地图烦恼呢?
China Daily 最新合辑
The color images include the Robinson projection, Mercator projection, azimuth projection, and orthographic projection of the Eastern and Western hemispheres of the Red Planet, with a spatial resolution of 76 meters.
Arno Peters argued that by enlarging European and North American countries, the Mercator projection gives white nations a sense of supremacy over non-white nations closer to the equator.
Arno Peters 认为,通过扩大欧洲和北美国家,墨卡托投影让白人国家对靠近赤道的非白人国家产生了至高无上的感觉。
英语百科
Mercator
Mercator (Latin for "merchant") may refer to:
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
geographer
联想词
Magellan麦哲伦;
英英词典
mercator n.
Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)