n. 环境，外界
英 [ɪn'vaɪrənm(ə)nt; en-] 美 [ɪn'vaɪrənmənt]
权威例句
- Outside the protected environment of institutional care he could not survive.
离开福利机构的照顾，离开这种受保护的环境，他将难以生存下去。
来自柯林斯例句 - His independence had been forged on the anvil of a harsh environment.
他的独立性是在艰苦的环境中锤炼出来的。
来自柯林斯例句 - The plans will be examined by EU environment ministers.
欧盟各国环境部部长将仔细研究这些计划。
来自柯林斯例句 - I have no doubt that we are polluting the environment beyond redemption.
我丝毫都不怀疑我们对环境的污染是不可挽回的。
来自柯林斯例句 - There is little assessment of the damage to the natural environment.
几乎未对自然环境破坏程度作出评估。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
environment 环境
en-, 进入，使。-viron, 围，绕，词源同wind,wrap.即周围的环境。
英文词源
environment (n.)
c. 1600, "state of being environed" (see environ + -ment); sense of "the aggregate of the conditions in which a person or thing lives" first recorded 1827 (used by Carlyle to render German Umgebung); specialized ecology sense first recorded 1956.
