英語・英会話の情報センター
現代世界の英語−環境 (1)
環境
environment
environment: the air, water, and land on Earth, which can be harmed by man's activities - LDCE
環境にやさしい
environment(ally)-friendly, eco-friendly
environment(ally)-friendly: products that are environmentally friendly do not harm the environment when they are made or when you use them - LDCE
環境保全
environmental preservation
preservation < preserve: to save something or someone from being harmed or destroyed - LDCE
環境保全主義者
environmentalist, environmental preservationist
environmentalist: a person who is interested in or studies the environment and who tries to protect it from being damaged by human activities - CALD
環境アセスメント
environmental-impact assessment
assessment: a process in which you make a judgment about a person or situation, or the judgment you make - LDCE
生態学
ecology
ecology: the relationships between the air, land, water, animals, plants, etc., usually of a particular area, or the scientific study of this - CALD
生態系
ecosystem
ecosystem: all the animals and plants in a particular area, and the way in which they are related to each other and to their environment - LDCE
食物連鎖
food chain
food chain : all animals and plants considered as a group in which a plant is eaten by an insect or animal, which is then eaten by another animal and so on - LDCE
絶滅種・絶滅危惧種
extinct and threatened [endangered] species
extinct: not now existing - CALD
species: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other - CALD
threatened は「絶滅の危機に瀕している」、endangered は threatened よりも深刻で「絶滅寸前の」という意味。
