global

英 ['gl??b(?)l] 美['ɡlobl]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6中頻詞核心詞匯

副詞:?globally;

global 全球的

來自PIE*glebh, 球體，成球狀。引申義地球，全球的。

global (adj.): 1670s, "spherical," from globe + -al (1). Meaning "worldwide, universal, pertaining to the whole globe of the earth" is from 1892, from a sense development in French. Global village first attested 1960, popularized, if not coined, by Canadian educator Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980).
Postliterate man's electronic media contract the world to a village or tribe where everything happens to everyone at the same time: everyone knows about, and therefore participates in, everything that is happening the minute it happens. Television gives this quality of simultaneity to events in the global village. [Carpenter & McLuhan, "Explorations in Communication," 1960]

1. Global ecological efforts can easily be at odds with local ecologies.: 全球性生態保護工作很可能會和地方生態系統存在矛盾。

2. Temperature records have unequivocally confirmed the existence of global warming.: 氣溫記錄清楚無疑地證實了全球氣候正在變暖。

3. Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.: 各報紙紛紛以此結果為證據來證明全球變暖并沒有真正發生。

4. Its Global Programme on AIDS funnelled money from donors to governments.: 其全球艾滋病項目把捐款發放給各國政府。

5. It is high time to consider the problem on a global scale.: 早該從全球視角考慮問題了。