名词

1. 成分;组成部分
The different elements of something are the different parts it contains.

2. 要素；基本部分
A particular element of a situation, activity, or process is an important quality or feature that it has or needs.

3. （社会或组织内部具有相同目标、信仰或习惯的）一群人，一组人，分子
When you talk about elements within a society or organization, you are referring to groups of people who have similar aims, beliefs, or habits.

4. 些许;一些
If something has an element of a particular quality or emotion, it has a certain amount of this quality or emotion.

5. （化学中的）元素
An element is a substance such as gold, oxygen, or carbon that consists of only one type of atom.

6. （电炉、热水器等的）电热元件，电热丝
The element in an electric fire or water heater is the metal part which changes the electric current into heat.

7. 天气；（尤指）风雨
You can refer to the weather, especially wind and rain, as the elements .

8. 自在;适得其所;如鱼得水
If you say that someone is in their element, you mean that they are in a situation they enjoy.

1. an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up
especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system

e.g. spare components for cars
a component or constituent element of a system

Synonym: componentconstituent

2. an abstract part of something

e.g. jealousy was a component of his character
two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony
the grammatical elements of a sentence
a key factor in her success
humor: an effective ingredient of a speech

Synonym: componentconstituentfactoringredient

3. the most favorable environment for a plant or animal

e.g. water is the element of fishes

4. a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone

5. the situation in which you are happiest and most effective

e.g. in your element

6. any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter

Synonym: chemical element

7. one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe

e.g. the alchemists believed that there were four elements