| 单词 | culture area |
| 释义 | > as lemmasculture area a. attributive and objective with sense ‘of, belonging to, or characteristic of a (particular) culture’ (see sense 7a), as culture area, culture conflict, culture myth, etc. ΚΠ 1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 106/2 All such legends are culture-myths. 1903 Daily Chron. 11 June 3/1 The hero-tales and culture-legends of the prehistoric period of the Hebrews. 1921 E. Sapir Lang. x. 223 That a group of languages need not in the least correspond to a racial group or a culture area is easily demonstrated. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Fantasia of Unconscious xi. 203 The woman is now the responsible party, the law-giver, the culture-bearer. 1931 H. J. Rose tr. W. Schmidt Orig. & Growth Relig. v. xiv. 221 Leo Frobenius, a pupil of Ratzel, enlarged..the doctrine of ‘culture-circles’ (or ‘spheres’, Kulturkreise). 1933 Downside Rev. 51 185 Russia is a culture-complex in itself, and Russia's problem is not ours. 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 44 365 The culture shift is toward urbanization and anglicization. 1949 M. Mead in M. Fortes Social Struct. 27 Teacher, physician, nurse..each in turn represents some different form of culture conflict. 1953 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 19 41 (title) The prehistoric culture-sequence in the Maltese Archipelago. 1962 D. Harden Phoenicians i. 24 To pick out what is Egyptian and Mesopotamian among finds and culture-traits in Phoenicia is not nearly so hard. 1978 PMLA 93 370/1 His powerful rendering of the culture myth that Woolf..sensed at the heart of Western literary patriarchy. 2003 Jrnl. Anthropol. Res. 59 571 The culture history of the Yuchi reflects the distinctiveness of the tribe within the generalized regional patterns common to the Southeastern culture area. < as lemmas |
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