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 en·vi·ron·ment /ɪnˈvaɪrə(n)mənt, ˈvaɪ(ə)r(n)-/
 環境,外界,圍繞

 en·vi·ron·ment /ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt, ˈvaɪ(ə)rn-/ 名詞
 環境,周圍

 environment
 環境

 environment
 環境

 En·vi·ron·ment n.
 1. Act of environing; state of being environed.
 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
    It is no friendly environment, this of thine.   --Carlyle.
 THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs.
   This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence.  However this isn't the case, instead the cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara.   --Michael Borowitzka (=\“Natural event spawns environmental disaster” in Murdoch News, October 12, 1995)\=
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 environment
      n 1: the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the
           comfortable environment of his livingroom"
      2: the area in which something exists or lives; "the
         country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environs,
          surroundings, surround]