culture

英 ['k?lt??] 美['k?lt??]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6中高頻詞基本詞匯

復數:?cultures;第三人稱單數:?cultures;過去式:?cultured;過去分詞:?cultured;現在分詞:?culturing;

culture 種植，栽培，文明，文化

來自cult-,耕作。引申詞義文化，即耕耘，培養。

culture (n.): mid-15c., "the tilling of land," from Middle French culture and directly from Latin cultura "a cultivating, agriculture," figuratively "care, culture, an honoring," from past participle stem of colere "tend, guard, cultivate, till" (see colony). The figurative sense of "cultivation through education" is first attested c. 1500. Meaning "the intellectual side of civilization" is from 1805; that of "collective customs and achievements of a people" is from 1867.
For without culture or holiness, which are always the gift of a very few, a man may renounce wealth or any other external thing, but he cannot renounce hatred, envy, jealousy, revenge. Culture is the sanctity of the intellect. [William Butler Yeats]
Slang culture vulture is from 1947. Culture shock first recorded 1940.

1. The city of Memphis is promoting a populist approach to culture.: 孟菲斯市在推行文化的民粹主義道路。

2. Our culture is more complex than he knows. Wheels within wheels.: 我們的文化比他所知道的要復雜得多，相當龐雜。

4. She speaks no Japanese and is unfamiliar with Japanese culture.: 她不會說日語，也不了解日本文化。

5. There is just not enough fun and frivolity in culture today.: 當今的文化恰恰是不夠輕松有趣。