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circum

周围环境,周边,周边环境,周围

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : a prefix with the meaning “round about, around,” found in Latin loanwords, especially derivatives of verbs that had the general senses “to encompass or surround” or “to go around” by the means or in the manner specified by the verb; on this basis forming adjectives in English with the meaning “surrounding” that named by the stem.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I stated this circum- stance to F. Kohlmann, at breakfast, and requested him to accompany me.

  • Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amicoTangit, et admissus circum præcordia ludit.

  • The latter had a large comitatus of his own: magnum numerum equitatus suo sumptu semper alere et circum se habere (I 18).

  • At noon satisfactory sets of circum-meridional altitudes were obtained with two good sextants.

  • “Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum præcordia ludit,” &c.