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environmental

/en-vahy-ruhn-muhn-tl, -vahy-ern-/US // ɛnˌvaɪ rənˈmən tl, -ˌvaɪ ərn- //

环境,环保,环境问题,环境方面

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the totality of things, conditions, influences, cultural forces, etc., that surround and shape the life of a person or a population: Investigators in the study will examine possible associations between aggressive prostate cancer and exposures to environmental stressors such as discrimination, early-life adversity, and segregation.
    • : Ecology. of or relating to all the external conditions, such as air, water, minerals, and other organisms, that surround and affect any given organism, often specifically relating to human interaction with these conditions: She took 11 lake samples to identify the fish communities present there and the defining environmental factors, like dissolved oxygen, pH, and vegetation.Agriculture is now a dominant force behind many environmental threats, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and the degradation of land and fresh water.
    • : of or being art that surrounds the viewer or involves the viewer’s participation, often on a grand scale and outdoors: Our programs include an exhibition of global art, public lectures on birds, and a collaborative outdoor installation of environmental art.

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Examples

  • They’re happening in airports, in schools, and increasingly in retail environments like shops and restaurants.

  • The extended phenotype doesn’t just extend into the environment and into the minds of other species but, importantly, into the minds of members of the same species.

  • The goal, says Seager, was to help “plug a hole” in thinking about this environment.

  • They may warn about chemicals in your food, house, clothes or environment.

  • However, if everything about your environment stays static, there’s a strong likelihood that your good intentions won’t manifest into new behaviors.

  • What they believe impacts economic policy, foreign policy, education policy, environmental policy, you name it.

  • All other issues—racial, feminine, even environmental—need to fit around this central objective.

  • The island faces an environmental challenge of huge proportions.

  • Although tough environmental controls were put in place in 2000, enforcement has been haphazard.

  • It has allowed the project to bypass normal due diligence and environmental impact assessments.

  • Such an attitude favors an easy escape from both the labor of character building and the obligations of environmental salvation.

  • Those individualistic tendencies growing out of periodic changes of the environment may be called environmental instincts.

  • The crabs and worms conceivably are two of the environmental features inhospitable to the rats.

  • Therefore it is never superfluous to study the individuals environmental conditions, surroundings, all his outer influences.

  • The color pattern changes in the course of development, and the shade of color changes in response to environmental conditions.