核心畫面

the natural world around us — the air we breathe, the land we walk on, the water we drink — and the concern for keeping it clean

可以想成「圍繞著我們的那一整圈外在世界」:呼吸的空氣、踩著的土地、喝的水。environment 本來就是「環繞在四更多收起可以想成「圍繞著我們的那一整圈外在世界」:呼吸的空氣、踩著的土地、喝的水。environment 本來就是「環繞在四周的東西」,所以 environmental 描述的,就是和這一整圈外在條件有關的事。

原始詞典資料3 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。

environmentaladj/ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/

  • 1

    Pertaining to the environment.

    • That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
  • 2

    Environmentally friendly.

    • Because consumers who are buying such productss cannot fully internalize the external utility of their purchase, prices for environmental products and other environmental innovations may be insufficiently high to cover their costs ( Kaas, 1993; Cleff and Rennings, 1999).

environmentalnoun/ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/

  • 1

    computingengineeringmathematicsAny factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.

    • The process to enable migration from the vendor-supplied configuration to a new architecture depends on many system environmentals.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。