1.要素，特色
2.【通常作单数】某事物的少量，某事物的启示或痕迹；自然的或合适的环境或栖息地
3.【化】元素
4.[the elements]自然力， 天气等（尤指坏天气）
5.[elements]（学科的）基本原则，原理，基础
6.零件，元件，组成部分 单词分析
- 这些名词均含“组成、成分、部分”之意。
component指一个整体的组成部分。
constituent常可与component换用，指某一整体不可少的部分或成分。
element指一个整体必不可少或固有的部分，强调一个复杂整体中最基本、最简单的元件、元素或成分等。
ingredient普通用词，含义笼统。既可指混在一起而本身没有变化的物质，如配料，又可指与别的物质混在一起，发生了变化的成分。
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- an abstract part of something
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal