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单词 exposure
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exposurenoun

uk/ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒər/us/ɪkˈspoʊ.ʒɚ/

exposure noun (EXPERIENCE)

C1 [ C or U ] the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place:

You should always limit your exposure to the sun.
Even a brief exposure to radiation is very dangerous.

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  • According to received wisdom, exposure to low level radioactivity is harmless.
  • We know that prolonged exposure to vibration can weaken aircraft components.
  • She gradually became deaf after lengthy exposure to noise in the workplace.
  • Researchers concluded that low level exposure to the chemical was unlikely to cause harm.
  • Even at low levels of exposure, lead can impair a child's learning ability and cause behavioural problems.

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Experiencing and suffering

  • afflict
  • affliction
  • almost/nearly die of sth idiom
  • be a martyr to sth idiom
  • be a victim of your own success idiom
  • be devoured by sth idiom
  • get the short end of the stick idiom
  • get/have your fingers burned idiom
  • go through sth
  • grip
  • hands-on
  • hold
  • ride
  • sample
  • seat
  • sense
  • undergo
  • underwent
  • ups and downs
  • writhe

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exposure noun (MADE PUBLIC)

[ C or U ] the fact of something bad that someone has done being made public]:

The exposure of the politician's love affair forced him to resign.

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Revealing secrets & becoming known

  • (the) word is/gets out idiom
  • bare
  • be the talk of the town idiom
  • break cover idiom
  • cat
  • dob sb in
  • emerge
  • fink
  • get around (somewhere)
  • give sth away
  • King's evidence
  • leak
  • let the cat out of the bag idiom
  • open your heart to someone idiom
  • sneak
  • spill the beans idiom
  • tell on sb
  • tongues wagging idiom
  • turn
  • unmask

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exposure noun (ATTENTION)

[ U ] the fact of an event or information being often discussed in newspapers and on the television, etc.:

His last movie got so much exposure in the press.

exposure noun (ILLNESS)

[ U ] a serious medical condition that is caused by being outside in very cold weather:

All the members of the expedition to the South Pole died of exposure.

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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood

  • acquired agammaglobulinemia
  • agammaglobulinemia
  • agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
  • anemic
  • angina
  • blood poisoning
  • deep vein thrombosis
  • dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Ebstein's anomaly
  • economy-class syndrome
  • Eisenmenger syndrome
  • endocarditis
  • haemorrhage
  • hypothermia
  • leukaemia
  • paediatric thrombocytopenia
  • patent ductus arteriosus
  • pediatric thrombocytopenia
  • pericarditis
  • peripheral vascular disease

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exposure noun (PHOTOGRAPH)

[ C ] a single photograph on a piece of film, or the amount of time a piece of film is open to the light when making a photograph:

There are 24 exposures on this film.

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Photography

  • airbrush
  • aperture
  • camera
  • camera obscura
  • camera-shy
  • capture
  • high-resolution
  • hologram
  • holography
  • kinetoscope
  • lo-res
  • negative
  • say cheese idiom
  • selfie
  • sharp
  • shoot
  • shutter
  • slide
  • SLR camera
  • snapshot

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exposure noun (DIRECTION)

[ S ] the direction in which something faces:

Our dining room has a northern exposure (= faces north), so it's rather cold.

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General location and orientation

  • -oriented
  • about
  • along
  • anterior
  • around
  • back onto sth
  • far
  • front
  • frontal
  • hind
  • left-hand
  • nearside
  • offside
  • on-site
  • orientated
  • overleaf
  • position
  • round
  • side-on
  • spot

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