civil society

短语

公民社会

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词形变化

civil societies 复数 civil societies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    All of the institutions, voluntary organizations and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family.

    公民社会

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  2. 2.

    Those things expected of a democratic society, such as free speech and human rights.

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  3. 3.

    Organized, internally peaceful human society; civilization.

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词源

From the archaic sense of civil, “peaceful and well-ordered”. Later senses of civil society reflect 19th-century Hegelian influence, as well as the earlier argument that tyrannical governments exist in the state of nature in relation to their subjects.

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