Climateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪmɪt/

名詞

climate (複数形 climates)

1. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     And the effects from climate change are already extreme.

2. (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.

   Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.

   • 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:

     This isn't the time for militant unionism. If I were at ScotRail, in the current climate I'd trade a pay freeze [sic: pay rise?] for job security.

3. (obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
4. (obsolete) A region of the Earth.

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climate (三人称単数 現在形 climates, 現在分詞 climating, 過去形および過去分詞形 climated)

1. (poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], line 169:

     The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!