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单词 ambiente
释义

ambienten.

Brit. /ˌambɪˈɛnteɪ/, U.S. /æmˈbjɛn(t)eɪ/, /ˌæmbiˈɛn(t)eɪ/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: Spanish ambiente; Italian ambiente.
Etymology: Partly < Spanish ambiente atmosphere, air (1600; 1832 or earlier in extended uses), and partly < Italian ambiente surroundings (1623; 1846 or earlier in extended uses), use as noun of Spanish ambiente (adjective) and Italian ambiente (adjective) respectively (for both, see ambient adj.). Compare earlier ambience n.Not fully naturalized in English. Compare the following earlier example of the Spanish noun in an English context:1848 E. W. Head tr. A. D. B. von Schepeler in Hand-bk. Hist. Spanish & French Schools of Painting i. ii. 40 This quality, visible in most of their works, even of the subsequent period, they [sc. the Spanish painters] called atmosphere or ‘ambiente [Ger. nannte man alsdann oft umgebende Luft (ambiente)].’
Mood, character, atmosphere, esp. of a particular place. Cf. ambience n. 1. Chiefly in Italian- and Spanish-speaking contexts.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area > totality of surroundings or environment
circumstancea1340
encompassure1600
environry1600
vironry1600
attendment1646
circumambiency1646
ambience1648
environment1725
circumjacency1751
environ1762
environage1831
setting1841
enshrinement1849
entourage1850
milieu1854
surroundings1861
ambiente1862
mise-en-scène1871
surround1922
Umwelt1964
1862 National Rev. July 149 If men as free from superstition as Lord Palmerston or Canon Stanley deliberately denounce the ambiente of the Seven Hills [of Rome] as predisposing to political jobbery.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent xii. 197 He [sc. Don Ramón, a Mexican] was utterly still..soft and unroused, within his own ambiente.
1965 House & Garden Dec. 37/1 Within the entertaining ambiente of this decoratively practical kitchen/dining-room.
2000 N. Kanellos Noche Buena 195 There is not much left of my home town. It is scattered and broken up, and its old ambiente seems to me almost entirely gone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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