(亦作
【希腊神话】 大地女神盖亚(大地的化身,卡俄斯的女儿,乌拉诺斯[天神] 的母亲和妻子,与乌拉诺斯的后代包括提坦诸神和库克罗普斯)。[ORIGIN: Greek, ‘Earth’.]
the earth viewed as a vast self-regulating organism
(被看成是能自行调节的巨大有机体的)地球。[ORIGIN: 1970s: coined by James Lovelock, at the suggestion of the writer William Golding, from the name of the goddess