核心畫面
Think of a pond: the fish, the weeds, the insects, the water, the people who fish there — none of them stands alone, and pulling on one pulls on all the rest. `ecological` can be held as the word for looking at living things that way, as a web of connections rather than separate items. From that way of looking, a second use grows: if everything is connected, then damage spreads, and so `ecological` also comes to mark the people and actions that try to keep the web from being torn.
可以想成一個池塘：魚、水草、昆蟲、水、來釣魚的人——沒有一樣是單獨存在的，你動了其中一個，其他全都會被牽動。ecol…更多收起
可以想成一個池塘：魚、水草、昆蟲、水、來釣魚的人——沒有一樣是單獨存在的，你動了其中一個，其他全都會被牽動。ecological 可以想成「用這種眼光看生物」的那個字：把牠們看成一張互相牽連的網，而不是一個個分開的東西。從這種看法會長出第二種用法：既然全都連在一起，破壞就會擴散，所以 ecological 也用來標記那些想守住這張網、不讓它被扯破的人和作為。原始詞典資料2 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。
ecologicaladj/ˌiːkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
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Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
- Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
- To get doomier still, there’s also the pertinent question of whether, given current ecological speculation, the human race will even survive beyond the next century or so – an uncertainty which makes applying one’s imagination to a 22nd or 23rd Century rather academic.
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Not harmful to the environment.
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。