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单词 cultural
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cultural
(kʌltʃərəl )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
Cultural means relating to a particular society and its ideas, customs, and art.
...a deep sense of personal honour which was part of his cultural heritage.
...the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation which promotes cultural and educational exchanges between Britain and India.
Synonyms: ethnic, national, native, folk  
culturally adverb [ADVERB adjective] B2
...an informed guide to culturally- and historically-significant sites.
Culturally, they have much in common with their neighbours just across the border.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
Cultural means involving or concerning the arts.
...the sponsorship of sports and cultural events by tobacco companies.
culturally adverb [ADVERB adjective] B1+
...one of our better-governed, culturally-active regional centres–Manchester or Birmingham, say.
Collocations:
cultural development
The satisfaction of his instincts without any spiritual feeling or cultural development that promotes principles, values and human sciences like philosophy, psychology, education and sociology.
Christianity Today
The football system deliberately works against their educational and cultural development.
The Sun
Dictators will say whatever the world wants to hear to justify their designer follies: that they are sustainable, environmentally responsible, constitute cultural development and urban renewal.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead, she celebrates 'the exuberant regionalism of the interwar period', and finds evidence of 'distinctive cultures of modernism' as the towns pursued divergent paths of social, industrial and cultural development.
The Times Literary Supplement
Writers flock to literary festivals, arguably the most significant cultural development of the past decade, in order to maintain and nurture a conversation with the people who read them.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural diversity
As a nation we are proud of our great cultural diversity.
The Sun (2009)
Management must become the instrument through which cultural diversity can be made to serve the common purposes of mankind.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Squabbling between the Republic of Quebec and the rest of Canada over cultural diversity inequities.
Terman, Douglas CORMORANT
It might also turn educational policy toward explorations and displays of cultural diversity that are less politically pretentious.
Hollinger, David A. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995)
Why did the coevolutionary process come to rest leaving impressive cultural diversity in human languages?
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd 2010, 'Why Possibly Language Evolved', Biolinguistics
cultural divide
Is there absolutely no possibility of latitude or compromise over this understandable cultural divide?
Times, Sunday Times
The couple bridge a cultural divide that includes a completely different perception of the risks.
Times, Sunday Times
It was soon followed by other powerful examples of a deep cultural divide between the generations.
Times, Sunday Times
We are now in much more of a cultural divide: open versus closed; liberal versus authoritarian.
Times, Sunday Times
The novelists' early topic - the cultural divide between authenticity and progress - turns out to have been an important one.
The Times Literary Supplement
cultural elite
The causes she supported, if unpopular with the establishment, won her many fans among the cultural elite.
Christianity Today
Traditionally, big business, universities and the cultural elite get to know the opposition.
Times, Sunday Times
Various pillars of the cultural elite signed a petition calling for his release.
Times, Sunday Times
In the following decades it developed a following among the cultural elite and many of its patients were wealthy.
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A genre film for the cultural elite, that got around the censors by virtue of its incomprehensibility.
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cultural event
The fashion show as popular cultural event had arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
So dinner should be agreeable, wholehearted, but not necessarily memorable — not a competing cultural event.
Times, Sunday Times
It's the most costly 24-hour cultural event ever, with a price tag of about $60m (£46m).
Times,Sunday Times
One recent cultural event has come not so much as a push, but as a dynamite blast, helping to clear from the highway's on-ramps a huge, craggy stone of falsehood.
Christianity Today
Clothes are one continuous cultural event.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural evolution
Only then did we experience rapid cultural evolution and innovate to the point where we could start exploring space.
Times, Sunday Times
We are special: self-awareness and language were a qualitative leap, allowing cultural evolution and the cumulative diversified expertise that led to science and technology.
Times, Sunday Times
But no one has managed to track these playground building blocks of cultural evolution in the making.
Times, Sunday Times
Approaches informed by cultural evolution may provide insights into how we can employ the two most effectively.
The Times Literary Supplement
He placed archaeology as an academic discipline and a practice within a broader context of social and cultural evolution.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural experience
Vaguely it's a place and vaguely it's a cultural experience.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a very different sort of cultural experience.
Times, Sunday Times
I've lived and worked in seven countries, so have a wide cultural experience.
Times, Sunday Times
All degrees include opportunities to develop wider skills such as team-working, and opportunities to gain work and cultural experience.
Times, Sunday Times
And his highly publicised social conscience, grounded in personal and cultural experience, has endeared him even to the cloth-eared mandarins of the current cultural establishment.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural expression
When a cultural expression no longer serves a function, it can simply cease to exist.
Smithsonian Mag
Ultra-libertarians, who regard antagonistic memes and political transgression as forms of cultural expression, loathe the idea that the internet should be a serious place.
Times,Sunday Times
It proves to be an indispensable tool for analysing the inscription of traumatic events in forms of cultural expression.
The Times Literary Supplement
Humans were constantly transforming the basic necessities of life into forms of artistic and cultural expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Too many other institutions stand for that type of cultural expression so there's no necessity for an institution to stand for it in such an intense way.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural historian
Perhaps he could best be described as a cultural historian.
Times, Sunday Times
Here he writes as a roving intellectual, cultural historian, anthropologist, literary critic and philosopher.
Times, Sunday Times
But you also wonder whether a cultural historian, as opposed to a critic at large, has a right to rely quite so heavily on his own preferences.
The Times Literary Supplement
That invites the obvious rejoinder that he was not a cultural historian but a great and profoundly narcissistic writer, entirely devoid of the objectivity that cultural historians need.
Times, Sunday Times
He also enjoyed a reputation as a cultural historian.
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cultural history
His next project will be a cultural history of India but he may one day return to Scotland.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It turns out that subtle differences in cultural history exert large effects on the way people think, and how they can be influenced.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Or you could leap on horseback to journey through cultural history.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We seem to have arrived at an important juncture in our intellectual and cultural history, a moment of transition between two very different modes of thinking.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
cultural icon
She is an influential pop cultural icon!
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Tintin is a cultural icon.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This re-invention is yet another example of how absolutely anything, even a test card, can become a cultural icon.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
cultural institution
By now they were members of a grand cultural institution.
Times, Sunday Times
The kirk, for so long the dominant cultural institution, promulgated a distinct and unimpeachably different kind of identity north of the border.
Times, Sunday Times
But the cultural institution maintains a vibrant digital presence through virtual exhibitions, remote learning resources and a library of insightful artistic criticism.
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It should be a condition of any production or cultural institution receiving public funding that performances are filmed and exhibitions photographed and made accessible to the whole country.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps no other cultural institution commands comparable bandwidth in our national consciousness.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural knowledge
Parodies only work if the audience shares a firm basis of cultural knowledge.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
He combines deep cultural knowledge with enthusiasm and intellectual dash.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Bearing, cultural knowledge and being socially adept are all skills prized by employers.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
cultural milieu
They don't need intermediaries to put their ideas into practice and their work is transforming our cultural milieu.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Today, it is argued, essentially the same experiences are interpreted within the current cultural milieu as visitors from space.
Campbell, Eileen & Brennan, J. H. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit (1994)
What is certain is that a sport that has been out of sympathy with the cultural milieu for many years has reached its lowest point.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In the last generation, churches have faced a different cultural milieu.
Christianity Today (2000)
cultural property
Some nations asserting cultural property rights are culturally, religiously and even ethnically distinct from the civilisations whose artefacts they now claim.
Times, Sunday Times
You try not to let cultural property get destroyed.
Smithsonian
As a result we identified about 40 items of uncertain provenance that are now publicly listed on the government's cultural property advice website.
Times, Sunday Times
It remains the largest single recovery of cultural property in the agency’s history.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
That might mean sharing searchable databases or updates to laws covering the import and export of cultural property.
Smithsonian Mag
cultural reference
How tenuous are our mutual points of cultural reference?
The Times Literary Supplement
Everything looks and feels like the 1980s, except the odd contemporary cultural reference.
Times, Sunday Times
No amount of capital spending, by football or any other sport, can purchase these wider cultural reference points.
Times, Sunday Times
There it sits, just off a country lane, all classical high formality and cultural reference.
Times, Sunday Times
His powerful intellect and wide range of cultural reference made him an authoritative teacher and formidable debater.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural relativism
She is rigorous in her definition of 'the best': cultural relativism and political correctness get short shrift from her, despite their good intentions.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
More little gems from that treasure chest of cultural relativism.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This extreme cultural relativism allows no preference for one form of society over another.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
One of the effortless abilities of the human tapestry that is TV is cultural relativism.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It has given rise to moral and cultural relativism, or the notion that there can be no hierarchy of values.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
cultural significance
Referencing the genres of electroclash, post-punk and garage rock, critics compare this movement's cultural significance to early-eighties post-punk.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Artists look at the cultural significance of the many marvellously volatile elements of the periodic table.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
To understand the cultural significance of the contemporary pick-up artist properly, we need to rewind three years.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
cultural ties
Take away loyalty and the cultural ties that underpin fandom, football becomes just another arm of the entertainment industry.
Times, Sunday Times
These cultural ties date back to the 1960s with only a short blip between the 1979 revolution and the mid 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times
Economic, historic, military, intelligence and cultural ties will continue to bind our two countries long after the rose-tinted spectacles of history have been discarded.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite the breakdown, cultural ties have survived, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
The do-gooders who run football's governing bodies like to promote the idea that football can be a force for peace and deeper cultural ties.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural tourism
The 420,000 facsimile has revolutionised methods of preserving and documenting precious archeological sites while pointing to a radically different future for cultural tourism.
Times, Sunday Times
They couldn't have imagined the phenomenon of modern cultural tourism.
Times, Sunday Times
It's perfect for those who want some cultural tourism with their wellness.
Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, the central location allows a visit to be a rather seductive option within a day of consumer or cultural tourism.
Times, Sunday Times
Is there an aspect of cultural tourism to a middleclass author writing this contemporary story?
Times,Sunday Times
cultural tradition
This book collects in chronological order nearly 300 texts, which are, according to its editor, the most representative examples of a cultural tradition 'practically hidden until recently'.
The Times Literary Supplement
They seem attached to the cultural tradition, but not the faith.
Globe and Mail
A 'rich and diverse cultural tradition', indeed!
The Times Literary Supplement
The city also has an important cultural tradition that goes from arts and crafts to theater, music and sports.
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This distinct cultural tradition has been observed for more than a century and shows the rich cultural heritage of the town.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
cultural transformation
Such a cultural transformation needs to happen here, too.
Times, Sunday Times
No wonder the report calls grime potentially 'the most disruptive cultural transformation since punk'.
Times, Sunday Times
Cinema existed at the intersection of art and economics; so it was destined to be thoroughly reorganized in this episode of economic and cultural transformation.
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The film captures the rootlessness of a morally stunted, lost generation that has come of age at a time of profound political and cultural transformation.
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Concerning itself with cultural transformation and the human condition, it seeks to expand the boundaries of aesthetics.
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cultural treasure
Planning to filch a cultural treasure and flog it at a vast profit?
The Times Literary Supplement
Scenery, costumes and props are stacked back-to-back on a colourcoded floor (red means moveable platform, green means fixed) in this cultural treasure trove.
Times, Sunday Times
If charges are pressed, they could face up to ten years in jail for the 'theft of a cultural treasure of particular significance'.
Times, Sunday Times
Today those pictures have become both a cultural treasure and a monumental detective story.
Times, Sunday Times
Villa owners are now getting together to revive their former splendour, realising they have a cultural treasure trove to offer tourists.
The Sun
cultural trend
He has worked hard, demonstrated resolve, but he has also, perhaps unintentionally, symbolised a wider cultural trend.
Times, Sunday Times
But any letter expressing general dismay over some ill-defined cultural trend or proclaiming unobjectionable things to be praiseworthy (there were a great many of both) got a response.
The Times Literary Supplement
This highly influential cultural trend became dominant in painting as well as in cinema, music and literature.
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And a new cultural trend born, the film: in the first decade of the 20th century there were already three cinemas.
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Behind all these cultural trends lies a clear demographic factor: more of us are going to university than ever before.
Times, Sunday Times
cultural understanding
The benefits in terms of trade, cultural understanding and security co-operation have been immense.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet its vertiginous economic climb is not reflected by any deeper cultural understanding.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Patience and cultural understanding are as vital as the usual soldiering skills.
The Sun (2012)
Translations:
Chinese: 文化的
Japanese: 文化の
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