单词 | folk-life |
释义 | > as lemmasfolk-life folk-life n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > specific > life of people of earlier times folk-life1864 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > traditional behaviour folk-life1864 folkway1906 1864 Reader 1 Oct. 407 The minute notices concerning medicine [etc.]..that are scattered through the pages of our mediaeval biographers will increase our knowledge of the folk-life of the past. 1923 W. B. Yeats Plays & Controversies 210 We thought we could bring the old folk-life to Dublin. 1955 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (ed. 3) p. xv It is within the folklife of these Creoles that the emotional character of hot jazz is to be found. 1966 G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough 21 Folk-life implies a holistic approach whose main definition is not in method but in the field of study. < as lemmas |
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