| 单词 | culture |
| 释义 | culture (once / 107 pages) 1n 2nv 3n 4n A culture is a specific group of people during a particular time — like the hippie culture of the 1960's. Culture can also imply exposure to the arts. Visit a museum if you are in need of a dose of culture. A useful thing to remember about culture is that it is closely related to cultivate, whose root meaning is "to till the soil." Even in Latin, the source language, cultura was used metaphorically (Cicero said philosophy was cultura animi, the "cultivation of the soul"), and in English it moved from the agricultural sense to training, development of language and literature, mental development through education, and finally the ideas, customs, and intellectual and artistic conditions of a society or group. WORD FAMILYculture: acculturate, counterculture, cultural, cultured, cultures, culturing, subculture+/acculturate: acculturated, acculturation, acculturative/acculturation: acculturational/counterculture: countercultures/cultural: culturally, multicultural, transcultural/cultured: culturedly, uncultured/multicultural: multiculturalism/subculture: subcultures/uncultured: unculturedly USAGE EXAMPLESProfessor Nigel Hunt said the UK needed "a culture change" at work. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said it was important to remember the "horrors" of the Ypres battlefields, and honour the memories of the many who died. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Culture crawl I would, at breakneck pace, through an only-in-Manhattan New Year’s Eve, to show last year the door. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n all the knowledge and values shared by a society Syn|Hypo|Hyper acculturation meme a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation) cognitive content, content, mental object the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned 2n a particular society at a particular time and place Syn|Hypo|Hyper civilisation, civilization Aegean civilisation, Aegean civilization, Aegean culture the prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries Helladic civilisation, Helladic civilization, Helladic culturethe bronze-age culture of mainland Greece that flourished 2500-1100 BC Indus civilizationthe bronze-age culture of the Indus valley that flourished from about 2600-1750 BC Minoan civilisation, Minoan civilization, Minoan culturethe bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC Mycenaean civilisation, Mycenaean civilization, Mycenaean culturethe late bronze-age culture of Mycenae that flourished 1400-1100 BC Paleo-American culture, Paleo-Amerind culture, Paleo-Indian culturethe prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America Western civilization, Western culturethe modern culture of western Europe and North America Cyclades, Cycladic civilisation, Cycladic civilization, Cycladic culturethe Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC Clovis culturethe Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by sharp fluted projectile points made of obsidian or chalcedony Folsom culturethe Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by a thin finely made flint projectile point having the shape of a leaf society an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization 3n the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization the developing drug culture the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture Hypo|Hyper cyberculture the culture that emerges from the use of computers for communication and entertainment and business Kalashnikov culturethe attitudes and behavior in a social group that resolves political disputes by force of arms mosaic culturea highly diverse culture attitude, mental attitude a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways 4n the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group 2Hypo|Hyper counterculture a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture mass culturethe culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media lettersthe literary culture flower powera counterculture of young people in the US during the 1960s and 70s appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values) 1n (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar) the culture of cells in a Petri dish Hypo|Hyper starter a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level 2v grow in a special preparation 3Hyper grow cause to grow or develop n the raising of plants or animals 4the culture of oysters Hypo|Hyper cranberry culture the cultivation of cranberries monoculturethe cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) tillagethe cultivation of soil for raising crops viniculture, viticulturethe cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing cultivation (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) n a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality Syn|Hyper cultivation, finish, polish, refinement flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection the state of being without a flaw or defect |
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