| 释义 |
civics orig. U.S.
[pl. of civic used as n., on analogy of politics, etc.; see -ics.]
That part of political science which is concerned with the rights and duties of citizenship. Also attrib.
1886Citizen (Boston) Dec. 5 Shall Civics be taught in the public schools? 1887Advance (Chicago) 25 Aug. 538 Instruction in civics as a special preparation for the duties of citizenship. 1888Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 13 Oct. 3/5 The question of the day..‘The End to be Kept in View in Teaching Civics’. 1889Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. VI. 318 In 1885 he [sc. Henry R. Waite] founded the American institute of civics... He was the first to employ the term ‘civics’ to designate those branches of science that pertain to the elevation of citizenship. 1903Daily Chron. 26 Oct. 3/4 No one now doubts that civics in moderation should be part of a child's training. 1916Amer. City Feb. 154/1 Girls in charge of the civics class. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 31 Night-school civics classes. |