单词 | ambient |
释义 | ambient (once / 7596 pages) adj Ambient is an adjective used to describe an aspect of the environment that completely surrounds you, but in a mellow way, like ambient music played softly throughout a restaurant, or the ambient orange glow during a setting sun. Ambient describes some pervasive quality of the surrounding environment, like the ambient lighting in a movie theater, or the ambient temperature of a room. Most times when you’re hearing silence, you’re hearing some ambient noises too, like the hum of a refrigerator or the whistle of a breeze. Usually ambient describes a quiet or peaceful quality, but it can be aggressive too, like the ambient drone of war planes flying above that you can hear no matter where you hide. WORD FAMILYambient: ambience USAGE EXAMPLESThe ambient air is Newark’s, but filtered, ventilated, heated, and cooled. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) In my little corner of Brooklyn, ambient feminism appeared to influence the way fashionable young women dressed. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) Ambient electronic musician Bonobo creates haunting tracks to dance to or meditate with. Time(Dec 23, 2016) adj completely enveloping the ambient air ambient sound the ambient temperature Syn close at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other |
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