核心畫面
You can think of environment as everything that surrounds you — the ring of people, places, and conditions you sit inside. Imagine standing in the middle and looking outward in every direction: whatever you, shapes how you live, and presses in on you from all sides is your environment. The famous 'nature' meaning is just this same ring drawn at planet-scale.
可以想成「把你團團圍住的一切」——你身邊的人、地方、條件，像一圈圈把你包在中間。想像你站在正中央往四面八方看，凡是環…更多收起
可以想成「把你團團圍住的一切」——你身邊的人、地方、條件，像一圈圈把你包在中間。想像你站在正中央往四面八方看，凡是環繞著你、影響你怎麼生活、從各個方向壓過來的東西，就是你的 environment。那個有名的「自然環境」意思，其實只是把這一圈放大到整個地球而已。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。
environmentnoun/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/
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The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- What was seen from the top down, as a large environment with many difficult trade-offs, is instead seen from the bottom up--as 10 million microenvironments, each to be regulated in its own right. It is this inversion of perspective that distinguishes microgovernment from other kinds of regulation, and that accounts for its often-bizarre behavior.
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The natural world or ecosystem.
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
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All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
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A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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。