单词 | exposure |
释义 | ex·po·sure 1. a. < skillful exposure of goods in a store window > < her exposure of a shapely leg > b. (1) < continued his exposure of electoral frauds > < the battle was finally won with the exposure of the Tory commissioner as a grafter — Current Biography > also < he feared exposure above all else > (2) < a dispassionate exposure of fundamental passions of any time and any place — T.S.Eliot > < how terrifying an exposure he was making of the emptiness of life without belief — F.O.Matthiessen > < suites were considered too heavy for exposure in the concert hall — Roland Gelatt > c. < reject all regulation of the birth rate by infanticide, exposure, … or any other means — H.E.Barnes & Howard Becker > d. (1) (2) < a roll containing eight exposures > (3) < an exposure of 1/50 second at f/8 > e. < denounced exposure of children to such corrupting literature > 2. a. < particularly striking … are the picturesque exposures of the somber banded clays — Earth Science Digest > d. < exposure to infection > : risk, vulnerability < insurable under a policy having less exposure — Charles Ray > < exposure to sudden attack by the enemy > specifically < she died as a result of exposure suffered after a shipwreck — American Guide Series: Maine > < the work is hard … and exposure is part of the routine — E.P.Hohman > c. < long exposure to the temperature of boiling water — J.B.Conant > < the permanent effects of his early exposure to Catholicism — William Troy > < wearily cynical from years of exposure to human misery — New York Times > d. < a kitchen with a western exposure > 3. < thousands of exposures of many different kinds of rock have been examined — W.E.Swinton > 4. |
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