environment

noun

1. （影响个体或事物行为或发展的）环境；客观环境
   the conditions that affect the behaviour and development of sb/sth; the physical conditions that sb/sth exists in
   1. a pleasant working/learning environment
      令人愉快的工作 / 学习环境
   2. An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
      不幸的家庭环境可能对孩子的行为造成影响。
   3. They have created an environment in which productivity should flourish.
      他们创造了一种可以大大提高生产力的环境。
   4. the political environment
      政治环境
   5. tests carried out in a controlled environment
      在受控环境下进行的试验
2. 自然环境；生态环境
   the natural world in which people, animals and plants live
   1. the Department of the Environment
      环境事务部
   2. measures to protect the environment
      保护环境的措施
   3. pollution of the environment
      环境污染
   4. damage to the environment
      对环境的破坏
3. （运行）环境；工作平台；软件包
   the complete structure within which a user, computer or program operates
   1. a desktop development environment
      桌面开发环境

1. N-VAR 生活环境；周围状况
   Someone's environment is all the circumstances, people, things, and events around them that influence their life.
   1. Pupils in our schools are taught in a safe, secure environment...
      我们学校的学生在安全无虑的环境中接受教育。
   2. The moral characters of men are formed not by heredity but by environment...
      人的道德品质不是遗传的，而是由环境塑造而成。
   3. The twins were separated at birth and brought up in entirely different environments.
      那对双胞胎一出生就被分开，在完全不同的环境中被抚养长大。
2. N-COUNT 生存环境；特定自然环境
   Your environment consists of the particular natural surroundings in which you live or exist, considered in relation to their physical characteristics or weather conditions.
   1. If our environment cools, then messages from the skin alert the body's thermostat.
      如果外在环境变冷，体表会将这一信息传递给身体的体温调节中枢。
   2. ...the maintenance of a safe environment for marine mammals.
      为海洋哺乳动物维持安全的生存环境
3. N-SING 自然环境;生态环境
   The environment is the natural world of land, sea, air, plants, and animals.
   1. ...Conservative spokesman on the environment.
      保守党有关自然环境问题的发言人
   2. ...persuading people to respect the environment.
      劝告人们保护生态环境

Be careful with the spelling of this word.
注意该词的拼写。

1. Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
   应帮助学生对环境采取积极的态度。
2. Even in the artificial environment of an office, our body rhythms continue to affect us
   即使是在办公室这样的非自然环境中，我们的人体生物钟依然影响着我们。
3. 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。
4. The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.
   会议上提出的还是那些惯常讨论的老套话题——宏观经济政策、第三世界债务和环境问题。
5. But tourism is double-edged, boosting the economy but damaging the environment
   但旅游业具有两面性，既刺激经济增长但又会破坏环境。
6. His task was to elaborate policies which would make a market economy compatible with a clean environment.
   他的任务是制定详细政策，使得市场经济和清洁环境能够共存。
7. Pupils in our schools are taught in a safe, secure environment
   我们学校的学生在安全无虑的环境中接受教育。
8. The moral characters of men are formed not by heredity but by environment
   人的道德品质不是遗传的，而是由环境塑造而成。
9. The twins were separated at birth and brought up in entirely different environments.
   那对双胞胎一出生就被分开，在完全不同的环境中被抚养长大。
10. If our environment cools, then messages from the skin alert the body's thermostat.
    如果外在环境变冷，体表会将这一信息传递给身体的体温调节中枢。
11. This does not encourage the child to analyse the environment in a formal way
    这并不能鼓励孩子有条理地分析周围的环境。
12. What they seem to want to do in fact is fossilize the particular environment in which people live and work
    他们似乎想要做的实际上就是让人们生活和工作的环境固定不变。
13. I set up a ginger group on the environment.
    我建立了一个积极从事环保的组织。
14. Nancy chose the product because it is better for the environment.
    南希选择这种产品是因为它更环保。
15. Bookshelves groan under the burden of books on threats to the environment.
    书架上摆满了有关环境威胁的书，不堪重负。
16. It should not surprise us that such an environment has produced a hardy and independent people
    这样的环境造就了一个吃苦耐劳、独立自主的民族，对此我们不应该感到意外。
17. Building more motorways and bypasses will help the environment by reducing pollution and traffic jams in towns and cities
    建造更多的高速公路和绕城道路能够减少城镇中的污染和交通堵塞，有利于改善环境。
18. If this round of talks fails, the world's trading environment is likely to become increasingly hostile.
    如果这一轮谈判破裂了，世界贸易环境可能会变得越来越糟糕。
19. It was interesting to be in a different environment
    到一个全新的环境中是很有意思的。
20. The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants.
    这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。
21. The Energy Minister responded by saying that the opposition's concern for the environment was political opportunism.
    能源部长回应说，反对派对环境问题的关切是政治上的机会主义。
22. You need to understand how office politics influence the working environment.
    你需要了解办公室权术是如何影响工作氛围的。
23. I disagree with the premise that economic development has priority over the environment.
    我不赞成经济发展应优先于环境保护这个前提。
24. 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。
25. It is through our nervous system that we adapt ourselves to our environment and to all external stimuli.
    我们是通过神经系统使自己适应环境及所有外部刺激的。
26. He worked in the notoriously unhealthy environment of a coal mine.
    他在一个环境出了名恶劣的煤矿里工作。
27. Helen described life in a weightless environment during her period in space.
    海伦描述了她身处太空时失重状态下的生活。
28. The protection of the environment is one of the basic state policies of the Chinese government.
    保护环境是中国政府的基本国策。
29. In order to transform their environment, he drew up the project with painstaking accuracy.
    为了改造环境，他苦心孤诣地制订了这个计划。
30. We want [ need] a peaceful international environment.
    我们需要一个和平的国际环境。

noun

1. the area in which something exists or lives
   1. the country--the flat agricultural surround

   Synonym:    environssurroundingssurround

2. the totality of surrounding conditions
   1. he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room