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 atmosphere ['ætmәsfiә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 大气, 空气, 气氛

[医] 大气; 大气压


  1. There is an atmosphere of peace and calm in the country, quite different from the atmosphere of a big city.
    在乡间有一种和平宁静的气氛,和大城市的气氛截然不同。
  2. The atmosphere over dinner was warm and friendly.
    用餐时洋溢著热情友好的气氛。
  3. The plants drink in moisture from the atmosphere.
    植物从大气中吸取水分。


atmosphere
[ noun ]
  1. a particular environment or surrounding influence

  2. <noun.state>
    there was an atmosphere of excitement
  3. a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade

  4. <noun.quantity>
  5. the mass of air surrounding the Earth

  6. <noun.location>
    there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere
    it was exposed to the air
  7. the weather or climate at some place

  8. <noun.state>
    the atmosphere was thick with fog
  9. the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body

  10. <noun.object>
  11. a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

  12. <noun.attribute>
    an air of mystery
    the house had a neglected air
    an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters
    the place had an aura of romance


Atmosphere \At"mos*phere\, n. [Gr. ? vapor (akin to Skr.
[=a]tman breath, soul, G. athem breath) + ? sphere: cf. F.
atmosph[`e]re. See {Sphere}.]
1. (Physics)
(a) The whole mass of a["e]riform fluid surrounding the
earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any
celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of
Mars.
(b) Any gaseous envelope or medium.

An atmosphere of cold oxygen. --Miller.

2. A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical
atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround
electrical bodies. --Franklin.

3. The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a
unit of surface, or about 14.7 lbs. to the sq. inch.

Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650
atmospheres. --Lubbock.

4. Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition.

The chillest of social atmospheres. --Hawthorne.

5. The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a
special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere
of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

  1. Nome, which looks onto the frozen Norton Sound, took on a party atmosphere helped by sunny skies and temperatures in the 20s.
  2. Stock prices were mostly lower in a sluggish, holiday atmosphere on Wall Street today.
  3. Rebels are slowly advancing from suburb to suburb of this capital, where an atmosphere of fear and lawlessness prevails along with expectations President Samuel Doe will soon take flight.
  4. In this tense atmosphere, wild rumors abounded.
  5. "I'm sorry it happened," he said. "It tears me up." The shooting of an opposition politician on the eve of the first multiparty elections in Soviet Georgia has created an atmosphere of fear and acrimony in this republic.
  6. Sulfur dioxide and other emissions turn into acids high in the atmosphere and can fall as acid rain, fog or snow up to several hundreds of miles downwind.
  7. Zancanata and a team of scientists fired rockets in the ealry 1960s from Christmas and Johnson islands in the Pacific Ocean to study the effects of nuclear blasts on the atmosphere.
  8. Kyodo News Service reported the launch was mainly aimed at checking air resistance and vibration as the rocket flies in the atmosphere.
  9. The problem is that concentrations of carbon-14 in the atmosphere vary unpredictably over time.
  10. Students at the Normal University and other schools in northwest Beijing's university district said the campuses had little of the holiday atmosphere of past National Days.
  11. The Energy Department recently admitted that the plant has released at least 300,000 pounds of radioactive uranium dust into the atmosphere during its 37 years of operation.
  12. "There is an atmosphere of distrust throughout the ministry," says Mr. Miranda, who now gives French lessons here.
  13. It was in this atmosphere that Mai Nap began serializing the hitherto unpublished memoirs of the late Zoltan Vas, a senior party official.
  14. Two communist party leaders also met with Mazowiecki on Wednesday and said a good atmosphere prevailed but "certain details" remain unsettled and require more talks Thursday, according to PAP.
  15. He also moderated a two-day conference in Moscow on depletion of the ozone later in the the upper atmosphere.
  16. "The chancellor will endeavor to explain the West German position again in an atmosphere of trust and friendship," Klein said.
  17. The Edwardian tram carrying 40 tourists stops, and the atmosphere becomes bleak.
  18. Believe it or not, fasting can be fun and the atmosphere can be festive.
  19. Activist Kelly Quirke said Greenpeace was protesting "a fossil-fuel energy policy that is not only destroying the ocean but the atmosphere." The Valdez will be moved to dry dock after an underwater survey of damage.
  20. The German and Indian scientists said their measurements indicated about 2,200 tons of the major Halon was being emitted into the atmosphere annually.
  21. The source said that despite their small numbers, the presence of the opposition party members changed the atmosphere of the entire legislature.
  22. It was in this highly politicized atmosphere that the trials in the Bologna case were held.
  23. That's about the speed of sound in Neptune's atmosphere.
  24. The two Soviet spacecraft are to enter the gravitational pull of Mars in January and fall into orbit just behind Phobos for a three-month study of the Martian surface, atmosphere and magnetic field.
  25. But two Pennsylvania citizens' groups challenged the decision, expressing concern about the release of radiation into the atmosphere.
  26. High pressure in the upper atmosphere centered over northern Florida, helping carry moisture into the lower Mississippi Valley, and showers and thunderstorms blossomed across the region.
  27. A carnival atmosphere set in when the rain stopped, complete with popcorn vendors and music from a military band.
  28. John Scotney's adaptation is excellent, full of atmosphere and truly lively characters - the ministers Mungo Muirhead and Ebenezer Proudfoot (Robert Trotter and John Shedden) betray a Buchanesque ministerial hatefulness.
  29. The interim arrangements could help calm the atmosphere.
  30. The sour atmosphere of a family squabble does not help a sale. Do not hasten to tell your neighbours: so says Andrew Smith, of national agent Strutt & Parker.
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