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Fallout Nuclear Radioactive Kind People N Uncount 不可数名词 英

英语单词 fallout
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
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[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.
  • They were exposed to radioactive fallout during nuclear weapons tests.

    在核武器试验中他们暴露在放射性尘埃之下。

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[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 from n]
  • Grundy lost his job in the fallout from the incident.

    格伦迪受该事件影响丢了工作。

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