英语词汇environment的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	environment
词源	environment. Thomas Carlyle invented the word environ- ment (from the English environ) in its modern meaning of “the aggregate of external circumstances, conditions, and things that affect the existence and development of an individual, or- ganism, or group.” The word, first recorded in 1827, is his ren- dering of the German Umgebung, meaning the same, which had apparently been coined by Goethe.
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