Civilization
[ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən] or [,sɪvələ'zeʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations); 'the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization'.
(noun.) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization.
錄入:内德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.
埃莉诺校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Culture, cultivation, refinement.
編輯:丽诺尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Amelioration, culture, cultivation, humanization, refinement
ANT:Demoralization, savagery, uncivilization, barbarism, rudeness, brutality
整理:威廉
娱乐性解釋/意思:
An upward growth or tendency that has enabled mankind to develop the college yell from what was once only a feeble war-whoop.
詹妮校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But the uses to which they are put are civilization, and without the things the uses would be impossible. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In the fifth century the great civilization of Rome fell under the ruthless attack of the northern barbarian. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- From the very beginnings of civilization the little children of the poor had always been obliged to do whatever work they could do. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is it for this that we are asked to throw away the civilization which is the growth of ages? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- They came into this inheritance of a previous civilization with the ideas and traditions of the woodlands still strong in their minds. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It would be impossible to transplant the Aristophanic comedy to England, for modern civilization is too complicated to admit of such free speaking. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- As in the Indian civilization, the leading class is an intellectual one; less priestly than the Brahmin and more official. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We have shown the necessary relationship of these early civilizations to the early temples and to king-gods and god-kings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is a considerable imaginative appeal in the obscure story of the early American civilizations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The old civilizations created tradition, and lived by tradition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In this matter, again, the records of ancient civilizations show the pains that were taken to fix these essentials of science. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The nobility of the old river valley civilizations arose out of the court system. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was cut off from the civilizations to the west and to the east by vast mountain barriers and desert regions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Such organizations of restriction upon free intercourse have come and gone in great variety in the history of all long-standing civilizations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At last there happened to Egypt what happened so frequently to the civilizations of Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They are the foundation of that national vigor through which civilizations mature. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A vast proportion of mankind in the early civilizations was employed in purely mechanical drudgery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Medi?val Germany went as far as any of the Western heirs of the first great civilizations towards a fixation of classes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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