global

adj. 全球的；总体的；球形的

中文词源

global 全球的

来自PIE*glebh, 球体，成球状。引申义地球，全球的。

global (adj.): 1670s, "spherical," from globe + -al (1). Meaning "worldwide, universal, pertaining to the whole globe of the earth" is from 1892, from a sense development in French. Global village first attested 1960, popularized, if not coined, by Canadian educator Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980).
Postliterate man's electronic media contract the world to a village or tribe where everything happens to everyone at the same time: everyone knows about, and therefore participates in, everything that is happening the minute it happens. Television gives this quality of simultaneity to events in the global village. [Carpenter & McLuhan, "Explorations in Communication," 1960]

1. Global ecological efforts can easily be at odds with local ecologies.: 全球性生态保护工作很可能会和地方生态系统存在矛盾。

2. Temperature records have unequivocally confirmed the existence of global warming.: 气温记录清楚无疑地证实了全球气候正在变暖。

3. Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.: 各报纸纷纷以此结果为证据来证明全球变暖并没有真正发生。

4. Its Global Programme on AIDS funnelled money from donors to governments.: 其全球艾滋病项目把捐款发放给各国政府。

5. It is high time to consider the problem on a global scale.: 早该从全球视角考虑问题了。