| 单词 |
terraforming |
| 释义 |
terraforming, vbl. n. Chiefly Science Fiction.|ˈtɛrəfɔːmɪŋ|
[f. terra n. 2 + forming vbl. n.]
The process of transforming a planet into one sufficiently similar to the earth to support terrestrial life.
1949‘W. Stewart’ in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 15/1 I've got the Martian industrial trust interested in an atomic furnace to make synthetic terraforming diamonds. 1989Daily Tel. 4 Nov. p. xiii/5 Mars..is a dry, cold and almost airless world that will need considerable changes, or ‘terraforming’, before people can roam its deserts without protective clothing. 1993Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 12/2 Mars-Firsters, or Reds, who see terraforming as an unrectifiable insult to the uniqueness of the planet.
So ˈterraform v. trans., to transform (an environment or planet) in this way; ˈterraformed ppl. a.
1949‘W. Stewart’ in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 37/1 That little terraformed planetoid, outside the mines and the drift, had been the base of supplies for Freedonia. Ibid., Once old Bruce O'Banion..hired Jim Drake to terraform it. 1974Niven & Pournelle Mote in God's Eye (1975) i. iv. 33 The middle two planets are inhabited, both terraformed by First Empire scientists after Jasper Murcheson. 1992Waldenbooks Hailing Frequencies 14/1 Venus had been terraformed, more or less. |
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