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]
实用例句
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。来自柯林斯例句
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。来自柯林斯例句
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。来自柯林斯例句
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。来自柯林斯例句
5. It is high time to consider the problem on a global scale.
