culture

A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #2695 ★★★★☆

n. 文化, 修养, 耕种 vt. 耕种, 培养

发音

UK /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
US /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/

词形变化

cultures 复数 cultures cultured cultures 三单 culturing culturing 现在分词 cultured 过去式 cultured 过去分词

别名

Cx culcha

教材释义与例句

名词

文化，文明；修养；栽培

the beliefs, way of life, art, and customs that are shared and accepted by people in a particular society

动词

[细胞][微] 培养（等于cultivate）

to grow bacteria or cells for medical or scientific use

动词

培养（等于cultivate）

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

    文化

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    Cultivation.

    可数 不可数 植物学 生物 商务

    http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs

  6. 6.

    The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

    可数 不可数 生物
  7. 7.

    The growth thus produced.

    可数 不可数

    I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

  8. 8.

    A group of bacteria.

    可数 不可数
  9. 9.

    The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.

    可数 不可数
  10. 10.

    Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).

    可数 不可数
  11. 11.

    Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)

    可数 委婉 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)

    及物
  2. 2.

    to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

finish polish civilization civilisation refinement cultivation acculturation

上位词 10

taste society growing attitude development content growth perfection appreciation cultivation

下位词 10

letters starter meme counterculture cyberculture Czechness Japaneseness mass culture monoculture tillage

部分词 1

subculture
动词

上位词 1

grow

相关短语

culture shock n. 文化冲击 culture medium [医] 培养基 culture jamming culture media [医] 培养基, 营养培养基 culture of death culture vulture 文化狂热分子 culture vultures culture shocks culture war 文化战争 culture wars culture maker culture makers culture hero 文化英雄 culture heroes

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

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