英语词汇“the humanities”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. Frequently in the humanities.

a. In singular and plural. Literary learning or scholarship; secular letters as opposed to theology; esp. the study of ancient Latin and Greek language, literature, and intellectual culture (as grammar, rhetoric, history, and philosophy); classical scholarship. In later singular use, chiefly in Scottish universities: the study of Latin language and literature. Cf. humane letters n. at humane adj. Compounds, literae humaniores n.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun]

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liberal artsa1398

humanity1483

anthroposophy1588

humanistics1716

human science1833

society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > specific types of literature > ancient Latin and Greek

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classic1684

humanistics1716

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > knowledge or study of

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1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 121 a/2 He floured in double science..that is to saye dyuynyte and humanyte.

1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 255 Hauynge..sum knowleage of letters of humanitie.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. ii. 98 By reason of profane literature & humanitie opposite vnto sacred letters.

1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶iij^v If then we may..spend some of our young yeares in studie of humanitie, what better and more meete studie is there for a young man than Poetrie?

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 There doe arise three knowledges, divine philosophy, natvral philosophy, and hvmane philosophy, or hvmanitie .

1664 T. Urquhart Life Rabelais in T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. sig. A6 His Father sent him to Angiers to study his humanities in the Convent of Bamette.

1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 43 He..went to Lisbone, and taught Humanity in the English Colledge there.

1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. x. 440 In this University [sc. Edinburgh] are taught Divinity, Philosophy..Oratory, Humanity.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. vii. 26 There is the finest Seminary for the Humanities.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xvii. 410 Nicholas the fifth..established public rewards at Rome for composition in the learned languages, appointed professors in humanity.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 172 I have been bred in Paris, and learned my humanities and my cursus medendi.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 474 Lectures in humanity, that is, in classical literature, were, in 1535, established..in all colleges of the university of Oxford.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 207 An Eton captain..critically learned in all the humanities.

1869 A. Grant Addr. Students Univ. Edinb. 2 Nov. Latin, not altogether without reason called ‘Humanity’ in this University, is the greatest of all keys to the history, the thoughts, and the mind itself of civilized man.

1893 T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. ii. 58 The first Professor of Humanity [in C.C.C., Oxford] was Ludovicus Vivès, the celebrated Spanish humanist.

1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 240/2 The Humanities, or Litteræ humaniores,..an old-fashioned name for the study of classical literature.

1949 Obit. Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 6 540 Every candidate was obliged to attend for at least two sessions on the classes of Humanity (Latin), Greek and mathematics.

1994 Imago Mundi 46 168/1 He joined the Classics staff at the then University College of Hull before moving in 1950 to the Department of Humanity (Latin) at the University of Glasgow.

2000 E. Dezon-Jones in A. R. Larsen & C. H. Winn Writings by Pre-revolutionary French Women xii. 239 She studied the humanities by herself, during mostly stolen hours, and even learned Latin, without a grammar book or assistance.

b. In plural (usually with the). The branch of learning concerned with human culture; the academic subjects collectively comprising this branch of learning, as history, literature, ancient and modern languages, law, philosophy, art, and music. Hence also in singular: any one of these subjects.The humanities are typically distinguished from the social sciences in having a significant historical element, in the use of interpretation of texts and artefacts rather than experimental and quantitative methods, and in having an idiographic rather than nomothetic character. Cf. human science n. at human adj. and n. Compounds 1b.

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1855 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 7 July 109/3 For the first time, we believe, in the history of our American Universities, has there been a formal academic recognition of Music as legitimately one of ‘the humanities’.

1886 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. (1890) iv. 108 Neither would I have you neglect the humanities. I could wish that every one of you..could enjoy in the originals Homer, and Virgil, and Dante, and Rabelais, and Goethe.

1912 Outlook 19 Oct. 353/1 We are teaching very well the laws of men and their ways—that is, sociology and the humanities.

1918 Jrnl. Geogr. Jan. 166 The problems of geography are human problems, for geography is a humanity as it is a science. It is one of the human sciences.

1966 Computers & Humanities 1 12 The reader for whom the volume is designed would do better to scan the most recent ACLS list of computerized research projects in the humanities.

1991 A. W. Levi & R. A. Smith Art Educ. iv. 62 Art history is a humanity and should be taught as such.

2003 Smithsonian May 110/2 We might also have avoided the huge and costly mistake of dividing academic life into two fire-walled regimes, the humanities and the sciences.

单词	the humanities
释义	> as lemmas the humanities 2. Frequently in the humanities. a. In singular and plural. Literary learning or scholarship; secular letters as opposed to theology; esp. the study of ancient Latin and Greek language, literature, and intellectual culture (as grammar, rhetoric, history, and philosophy); classical scholarship. In later singular use, chiefly in Scottish universities: the study of Latin language and literature. Cf. humane letters n. at humane adj. Compounds, literae humaniores n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun] artsc1300 liberal artsa1398 humanity1483 anthroposophy1588 humanistics1716 human science1833 society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > specific types of literature > ancient Latin and Greek humanity1483 classic1684 humanistics1716 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > knowledge or study of humanity1737 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 121 a/2 He floured in double science..that is to saye dyuynyte and humanyte. 1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 255 Hauynge..sum knowleage of letters of humanitie. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. ii. 98 By reason of profane literature & humanitie opposite vnto sacred letters. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶iij^v If then we may..spend some of our young yeares in studie of humanitie, what better and more meete studie is there for a young man than Poetrie? 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 There doe arise three knowledges, divine philosophy, natvral philosophy, and hvmane philosophy, or hvmanitie . View more context for this quotation 1664 T. Urquhart Life Rabelais in T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. sig. A6 His Father sent him to Angiers to study his humanities in the Convent of Bamette. 1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 43 He..went to Lisbone, and taught Humanity in the English Colledge there. 1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. x. 440 In this University [sc. Edinburgh] are taught Divinity, Philosophy..Oratory, Humanity. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. vii. 26 There is the finest Seminary for the Humanities. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xvii. 410 Nicholas the fifth..established public rewards at Rome for composition in the learned languages, appointed professors in humanity. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 172 I have been bred in Paris, and learned my humanities and my cursus medendi. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 474 Lectures in humanity, that is, in classical literature, were, in 1535, established..in all colleges of the university of Oxford. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 207 An Eton captain..critically learned in all the humanities. 1869 A. Grant Addr. Students Univ. Edinb. 2 Nov. Latin, not altogether without reason called ‘Humanity’ in this University, is the greatest of all keys to the history, the thoughts, and the mind itself of civilized man. 1893 T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. ii. 58 The first Professor of Humanity [in C.C.C., Oxford] was Ludovicus Vivès, the celebrated Spanish humanist. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 240/2 The Humanities, or Litteræ humaniores,..an old-fashioned name for the study of classical literature. 1949 Obit. Notices Fellows Royal Soc. 6 540 Every candidate was obliged to attend for at least two sessions on the classes of Humanity (Latin), Greek and mathematics. 1994 Imago Mundi 46 168/1 He joined the Classics staff at the then University College of Hull before moving in 1950 to the Department of Humanity (Latin) at the University of Glasgow. 2000 E. Dezon-Jones in A. R. Larsen & C. H. Winn Writings by Pre-revolutionary French Women xii. 239 She studied the humanities by herself, during mostly stolen hours, and even learned Latin, without a grammar book or assistance. b. In plural (usually with the). The branch of learning concerned with human culture; the academic subjects collectively comprising this branch of learning, as history, literature, ancient and modern languages, law, philosophy, art, and music. Hence also in singular: any one of these subjects.The humanities are typically distinguished from the social sciences in having a significant historical element, in the use of interpretation of texts and artefacts rather than experimental and quantitative methods, and in having an idiographic rather than nomothetic character. Cf. human science n. at human adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1855 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 7 July 109/3 For the first time, we believe, in the history of our American Universities, has there been a formal academic recognition of Music as legitimately one of ‘the humanities’. 1886 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. (1890) iv. 108 Neither would I have you neglect the humanities. I could wish that every one of you..could enjoy in the originals Homer, and Virgil, and Dante, and Rabelais, and Goethe. 1912 Outlook 19 Oct. 353/1 We are teaching very well the laws of men and their ways—that is, sociology and the humanities. 1918 Jrnl. Geogr. Jan. 166 The problems of geography are human problems, for geography is a humanity as it is a science. It is one of the human sciences. 1966 Computers & Humanities 1 12 The reader for whom the volume is designed would do better to scan the most recent ACLS list of computerized research projects in the humanities. 1991 A. W. Levi & R. A. Smith Art Educ. iv. 62 Art history is a humanity and should be taught as such. 2003 Smithsonian May 110/2 We might also have avoided the huge and costly mistake of dividing academic life into two fire-walled regimes, the humanities and the sciences. extracted from humanityn. < as lemmas
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