civilization

B2 CET-4 Oxf 5000 高中 FREQ #5399 ★★☆☆☆

n. 文明, 教化 [法] 文明, 文化, 文明国家的总称

发音

UK /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
CA /ˌsɪv.ə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
US /ˌsɪv.ə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
CA /ˌsɪv.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/
US /ˌsɪv.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/
AU /ˌsɪv.ə.lɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/
AU /ˌsəv.ə.laɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/
AU /ˌsəv.ə.lɑe̯ˈzæɪ.ʃən/

词形变化

civilizations 复数 civilizations

别名

civilisation police

教材释义与例句

名词

文明；文化

a society that is well organized and developed, used especially about a particular society in a particular place or at a particular time

modern American civilization

现代美国文明

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.

    文明

    可数 不可数

    the Aztec civilization

    Western civilization

    Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.

  2. 2.

    Human society, particularly civil society.

    不可数 可数

    A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.

    I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.

  3. 3.

    The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

    文明化

    可数 不可数

    The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.

  4. 4.

    The state or quality of being civilized.

    可数 不可数

    He was a man of great civilization.

  5. 5.

    The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

    可数 废旧 不可数
name
  1. 1.

    Collectively, those people and places of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.

    Near-synonym: ecumene (archaic)

    Some of the tourists in the upcountry might have embarrassed themselves if they'd been capable of having any shame, whining that they couldn't wait to get back to civilization.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

culture civilisation refinement

上位词 2

society excellence

下位词 3

Czechness Japaneseness Muslimism

部分词 1

subculture

相关短语

civilization-state 文明国家 Indus Valley Civilization 印度河流域文明 Manipuri civilization Indus Civilization Harappan civilization Harappan Civilization cradle of civilization Oxus Civilization Ancient Kangleipak

词源

Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilize + -ation or civil + -ization.

来源：wiktionary