ecological

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e·co·lo·gi·cal /ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl◂ $ -ˈlɑː-/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1 SGEconnected with the way plants, animals, and people are related to each other and to their environment 生态的 → environmental

an ecological disaster

生态灾难

2 SGESSOinterested in preserving the environment 主张生态保护的 → environment

ecological groups

生态保护组织

—ecologically /-kli/ adverbadv

5 an ecologically sound production process

一种对生态无害的生产过程

n This method of growing crops is effective and ecologically sound (=not likely to harm the environment).

Examples from the Corpus

ecological• Each team works in 3 villages of a chosen ecological and cultural region, with 8 months in each of the villages.• The government is to provide incentives for people to protect natural ecological assets such as forests.• There are warnings that the building of the dam will upset the ecological balance of the river basin.• As dump opponents had feared, it explicitly sidesteps many of the ecological concerns raised last fall by Park Service scientists.• Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.• This recognition has had a major impact, not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries.• We could conceivably escape disaster, but we seem destined, absent real change, for ecological impoverishment.• Previous studies have assessed the amenity role of countryside open-spaces using separate ecological, landscape and recreational criteria.• Ecotopian biotechnology on the contrary would possess an infrastructure based firstly on ecological rationality and secondarily on an economic basis.• But in ecological terms, something catastrophic had occurred.

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