英语单词 | fallout |
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英美音标 | 英 ['fɔːlaʊt] 美 ['fɔːlaʊt] |
中文释义 | n.原子尘的降下;辐射尘;余波;附带结果 |
英语例句 | (1) Many people believe that a fallout shelter will not protect them from an atomic explosion. (2) They had no protection from the fallout. |
中文例句 | (1) 许多人认为微粒掩蔽所并不能使他们免遭原子弹爆炸之害。 (2) 他们没有针对辐射微尘的防护措施。 |
vocabulary简明 | Fallout is the cloud of radioactive material that falls from the sky after a nuclear blast. Fear of the effects of fallout is just one reason some people are nervous about nuclear energy. |
vocabulary扩展 | Nuclear fallout settles on the ground and in the atmosphere after a nuclear bomb explodes or a reaction occurs at a damaged nuclear power plant. The dangers of this kind of fallout are enormous, including immediate death and long-term illness caused by breathing and eating the radioactive dust. Another kind of fallout is more figurative — it's any kind of negative effect or result, like the fallout from telling your family you're getting an enormous tattoo. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]核辐射 Fallout is the radiation that affects a particular place or area after a nuclear explosion has taken place.
2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]余波;后果 If you refer to the fallout from something that has happened, you mean the unpleasant consequences that follow it. [oft N
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