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单词 human
释义 hu·man
I. \ˈhyümən also ˈyü-\ adjective
(sometimes -er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Latin humanus, from hum- (akin to Latin homo man, human being) + -anus -an — more at homage
1.
 a. : of or relating to man : characteristic of man
  < human voices >
  < vulnerability of the human body >
 b. : primarily or usually harbored by, affecting, or attacking man
  < human appendicitis >
  < the common human flea >
2.
 a. : being a man : consisting of men
  < contrived for the destruction of the human species — Tobias Smollett >
  < the human race >
  < some special quality in the human beings who have made this particular transition — A.J.Toynbee >
 b. : of or relating to the social life or collective relations of mankind
  < human progress >
  < human history and evolution >
  < in the course of human events — U.S. Declaration of Independence >
3. : characteristic of or relating to man in his essential nature: as
 a. : of, relating to, or resembling man or his attributes in distinction from the lower animals
  < to be human is to understand, to evaluate, to choose, to accept responsibility — Lewis Mumford >
  < the gregarious impulses of human beings — J.B.Conant >
 b. : of or relating to man as distinguished from the superhuman, from the divine, or from nature : belonging to finite intelligence and powers
  < to err is human; to forgive, divine — Alexander Pope >
  < there are no absolutes and man must content himself with being human — H.E.Clurman >
 c. : susceptible to, representative of, or exemplifying the range of feelings, strengths, or weaknesses of which man is capable
  < a very human world, filled with joy and sorrow, innocence and evil >
  < for all his stiff outward bearing, he is very human >
  < the story of the ascent is a great human document >
  < far too human a creature to care much for art — Max Beerbohm >
 d. : having to do with, portraying, or arising from the small or large joys, sorrows, passions, struggles, or other interest-provoking experiences or situations of individual persons
  < human comedy >
  < full of the milk of human kindness — Shakespeare >
  < those human-interest yarns — Erle Stanley Gardner >
  < no business like book retailing for human interest — Allan McMahan >
  < a careful history of the human side of the whole case — M.R.Cohen >
  < nearly all these books contain the same human stories about the Queen — New York Times Book Review >
4. : symbolized in a representation of the zodiac or in a configuration of the stars by a man (as Aquarius), woman (as Virgo), or child (as Gemini)
5. : humane
 < balance her sharp tongue and uncertain moods against her warmly human disposition — Havelock Ellis >
6. : having some of the characteristics of a living person : like a human
 < the nearest of blood to me and the humanest was not a person nor a villager — H.D.Thoreau >
 < the woods began to open up, and the country looked more human — Willa Cather >
 < the statue is more human than the beings at his feet — Clifton Fadiman >
 < the humbler aspects of our cities are more human than the skyscrapers — Walter Pach >
7. : consisting of members of the family Hominidae : hominid
 < the several fossil human genera >
8. : unpredictably fallible or erratic : not behaving by known law : enigmatic
 < must always consider the human element >
 < Americans like other human beings are bewilderingly human — Max Lerner >
 < such an inconsistency is very human — P.E.More >
II. noun
(-s)
: a human being
 < sprung of humans that inhabit earth — George Chapman >
 < incomprehensible to us humans — William James >
 < no human since Adam — G.W.Cable >
 < the least developed of all ancestral humans — A.L.Kroeber >
 < what has been found true about rats may be applied to humans — E.E.Slosson >
 < like most of us lazy and indecisive humans — T.H.Fielding >
 < as completely scientific and objective an approach as a human is capable of — R.A.Hall b. 1911 >
 < two thousand million humans — G.H.T.Kimble >
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