包在外面的那層空氣
這一家由大到小排下來：地球的大氣層、其他星球的大氣、最後縮小到一個房間裡的空氣。始終是同一件事——包住某個東西的那團氣體。
Earth's atmosphere · noun · B1
The layer of air and gas that surrounds the Earth.
大氣層
核心畫面
You can picture the thin shell of air wrapped all the way round the Earth: invisible, but you are inside it every second, and it touches you everywhere at once. English keeps that shape — a medium that surrounds you and that you cannot step outside of — for smaller and smaller spaces, and finally for the feeling in a room, which also surrounds everybody in it whether they name it or not.
可以想成一層薄薄的空氣把整顆地球從頭到腳包起來：看不見，但你每一秒都待在裡面，而且它是四面八方同時貼著你的。英文一直…更多收起
可以想成一層薄薄的空氣把整顆地球從頭到腳包起來：看不見，但你每一秒都待在裡面，而且它是四面八方同時貼著你的。英文一直在重複用這個形狀——一種包住你、你走不出去的介質——先套到別的星球，再套到一個房間，最後套到一個場合裡的感覺，因為那種感覺也是同樣地把所有人一起罩住。Two branches
罩住一個場合的感覺
把「包住你的那層空氣」整個搬到感覺上：一走進去就被罩住、說不出來卻確實存在、而且大家同時都感覺得到。中文的「氣氛」其實用了同一個比喻，所以這一步對台灣學習者特別好接。
mood / feeling · noun · B1
The feeling that a place or event gives to the people in it.
氣氛
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ATmospherename
- 1
The distributed social media network of federated services using the AT Protocol.
- In the ATmosphere, you don't have to make a tradeoff. You can use the service which has better moderation and still reach the accounts you want, even if they host their account somewhere else and agreed to some other TOS than you.
atmospherenoun/ˈætməsˌfɪə/
- 1
The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- We may smile now to hear witchcraft spoken seriously of; but we forget perhaps that a belief in it is like a belief in the after appearance of the dead among the blue waters, the green graves, the still starry atmosphere and the great shadowy woods of our earth; […]
- To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
- 2
The air in a particular place.
- The last hue of crimson had died away in the west, and the depth of the rich purple atmosphere was unbroken.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
- 3
The conditions (such as music, illumination, etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
- 4
The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- The atmosphere for the football match was great.
- For by the hearth the children sit / Cold in that atmosphere of Death, / And scarce endure to draw the breath, / Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]
- 5
A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the formula P₂Mo_(20–24)O_(2–60).
- 6
broadcastingfilmmediaExtras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
- Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […]
- "It is estimated conservatively that there are some 50,000 would-be film extras in and around the celluloid capital, persons who would jump at the opportunity to appear as atmosphere in pictures," Scott concluded.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。