stratosphere是什么意思

stratosphere

英 ['str?t?,sf??] 美 ['str?t?sf?r]

stratosphere 平流層

來自拉丁語 stratus,展開，鋪開，-sphere,球，層，詞源同 atmosphere.

stratosphere (n.): 1908, from French stratosphère, literally "sphere of layers," coined by French meteorologist Léon-Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (1855-1913) from Latin stratus "a spreading out" (from past participle stem of sternere "to spread out;" see structure (n.)) + French -sphère, as in atmosphère (see sphere).

The region where the temperature increases or remains steady as you go higher. An earlier stratosphere, attested in English 1908 and coined in German 1901, was a geological term for part of the Earth's crust. It is now obsolete. Related: Stratospheric.

1. This was enough to launch their careers into the stratosphere.: 這足以讓他們的事業(yè)平步青云了。

2. If oil supplies were ever disrupted, it would send U.S. oil-import bills into the stratosphere.: 一旦石油供應(yīng)被中斷，美國的石油進(jìn)口額就會(huì)大幅度增加。

3. Most of the chlorofluoromethanes reside in the lower stratosphere.: 大多數(shù)氯氟甲烷存留在平流層下部.

4. Ozone is formed in the stratosphere and mesosphere by photochemical processes.: 由于光化過程,在平流層與中層內(nèi)產(chǎn)生了臭氧.

5. In the early 1960 s a worldwide aerosol band was discovered in the lower stratosphere at 17 - 24 km.: 在六十年代初期,在17-24公里平流層下部發(fā)現(xiàn)世界范圍氣溶膠帶.