You can think of climate as the long-run weather-character of a place — not today's rain, but what the sky is usually like there across years: the steady background mood of a place's weather.
From the word’s history
From Greek klima 'slope, zone', the angled bands of the earth from equator to pole. The ancients sorted places into zones by how the sun slanted on them — and each zone had its own lasting weather. That bridges straight to the modern core: a place's long-term weather.
源自希臘文 klima「傾斜、地帶」，指地球從赤道到極地一條條傾斜的緯度帶。古人按陽光斜射的角度把各地分成不同地帶，而每個地帶各有自己長年的天氣——這正好接到現代核心：一地長期的天氣樣貌。
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climatenoun/ˈklaɪ.mɪt/
- 1
The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
- As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.
- And the effects from climate change are already extreme.
- 2
The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
- Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.
- In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
- 3
obsoleteAn area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
- 4
obsoleteA region of the Earth.
climateverb/ˈklaɪ.mɪt/
- 1
obsoleteTo dwell.
- The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!
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