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greenhouse effect

/green-hous i-fekt/US // ˈgrinˌhaʊs ɪˈfɛkt //

温室效应,大棚效应

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.
    • : such a phenomenon on another planet.

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Examples

  • Science News for Students offers explainers on many topics, from areas of the brain to the greenhouse effect to plate tectonics.

  • So CO2 emissions, I mean, there are people that believe and there are those people who don’t believe in a greenhouse effect and global warming, but CO2 emissions, and in general, petrol consumption is a huge deal.

  • Using an infrared source in his well-equipped lab, he showed the greenhouse effect is not triggered by direct sunlight but by infrared radiation arising from the earth’s warmed surface.

  • If so, contrary to Jakosky, there would be well over a bar left in shallow ground deposits somewhere—enough to trigger a runaway greenhouse effect if vaporized.

  • The amount of frozen CO2 released would not be enough to induce a runaway greenhouse effect, they argue.

  • In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.

  • But they say its effect on the regular daily operation of organized crime has been negligible.

  • All of these increased barriers then have a snowball effect.

  • So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.

  • A revised version of the law goes into effect on January 1st, 2015.

  • In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

  • He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.

  • And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.

  • The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

  • She stabbed him, noting the effect upon him with a detached interest that seemed indifferent to his pain.