ex·po·sure /ɪkˈspoʒɚ/
 暴露,揭發,受到;曝光,輻照


 exposure
 曝光


 exposure
 曝光 曝露


 Ex·po·sure n.
 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.
    The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe.   --Macaulay.
 2. The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.
 When we have our naked frailties hid,
 That suffer in exposure.   --Shak.
 3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. “Under a southern exposure.”
    The best exposure of the two for woodcocks.   --Sir. W. Scott.
 4. Photog. The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.

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 exposure
      n 1: vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold
           or wind or rain; "exposure to the weather" or "they died
           from exposure";
      2: the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience;
         "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"
      3: the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of
         their campaign plans"
      4: aspect re light or wind; "the studio had a northern
         exposure"
      5: the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability
         to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" [syn: vulnerability]
      6: the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or
         plate; "he used the wrong exposure"
      7: a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or
         transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive
         material [syn: photograph, photo, pic]
      8: the act of exposing film to light
      9: presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the
         exposure of his anger was shocking"
      10: abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as
          infant out in the open)