element
element 英 [ˈelɪmənt] 美 [ˈɛləmənt]
n. 元素，要素
名词复数:elements
- An element is something basic and important––in chemistry, an element is one of the essential molecules that everything else is made of. If a book's ending carries and "element of surprise," it means surprise is an important part of the story's end.
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- n. 元素，要素
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1. Cost was a key element in our decision.
成本是我们决策时考虑的一个重要因素。
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2. The story has all the elements of a soap opera.
这个故事有肥皂剧的所有要素。
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3. We need to preserve the element of surprise.
我们得保留一些使人感到意外的东西。
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4. radical elements within the party
党内的激进派
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5. He taught me the elements of map-reading.
他教我看地图的基本方法。
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6. Water is a fish's natural element.
水是鱼的天然生活环境。
- element (n.) c. 1300, "earth, air, fire, or water; one of the four things regarded by the ancients as the constituents of all things," from Old French element (10c.), from Latin elementum "rudiment, first principle, matter in its most basic form" (translating Greek stoikheion), origin and original sense unknown. Meaning "simplest component of a complex substance" is late 14c. Modern sense in chemistry is from 1813, but is not essentially different from the ancient one. Meaning "proper or natural environment of anything" is from 1590s, from the old notion that each class of living beings had its natural abode in one of the four elements. Elements "atmospheric force" is 1550s.
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