漢：來源於希臘語，意爲“large,excessive,long”，與其意思相反的前綴是micro-。此外，與macro 意思相近的詞綴有grand-(aggrandize,grandiloquent),magn-(magnify,Magna Carta,magnanimity),maj- (majority,major-domo),max- (maxim,maximum),maha- (mahatma),mega- (megaphone,megalithic),megalo-(megalomaniac),metro- (metropolitan,metropolis)等。 英：word-forming element meaning "long, abnormally large, on a large scale," taken into English via Middle French and Medieval Latin from Gk. makros "long, large," from PIE root *mak- "long, thin" (cf. L. macer "lean, thin;" O.N. magr, O.E. mæger "lean, thin;" Gk. mekos "length"). 1.macrocosm n.great world ,great universe 宏觀世界，大宇宙 *macro(=large,great),cosm(=universe) 例句：He lives to much in his thoughts and emotions;he must orient himself to the macrocosm of actual human experience.他太過於沉浸在自己的思想和感情裡了，他必須轉變方曏，讓自己適應人類實踐的現實大世界。 2.macroeconomics n.economics dealing with those statistics that can be taken as controlling factors in the economy as a whole 宏觀經濟學 *macro(=large,great),eco(=house),nom(=law) 例句：Macroeconomics means the study of the determinants of national income,employment,prices ,and economic growth.宏觀經濟學要研究與國民收、就業(yè)、物價及經濟增長相關的決定性要素。 3.macrocode [macro- 宏，大 + code 代碼 →] n. 宏代碼 4.macroscopic [macro- 宏 + scop 看，觀察 + -ic ...的 →] adj. 粗眡的 / 宏觀的 5.macrometer [macro- 宏，大 + meter 測量 →] n. 測量器