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 culture ['kʌltʃә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 文化, 修养, 耕种

vt. 耕种, 培养

[化] 培养物

[医] 培养; 培养物


  1. Beijing is a good city for anyone who is interested in culture.
    对于喜欢文化艺术的人来说,北京是座很吸引人的城市。
  2. He is a man of little culture.
    他没多少文化修养。
  3. He was one of the apostles of the new culture.
    他曾是新文化的倡导者之一。


culture
[ noun ]
  1. a particular society at a particular time and place

  2. <noun.group>
    early Mayan civilization
  3. the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

  4. <noun.cognition>
  5. all the knowledge and values shared by a society

  6. <noun.cognition>
  7. (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)

  8. <noun.act>
    the culture of cells in a Petri dish
  9. a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

  10. <noun.state>
    they performed with great polish
    I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose
    almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
  11. the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization

  12. <noun.cognition>
    the developing drug culture
    the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture
  13. the raising of plants or animals

  14. <noun.act>
    the culture of oysters
[ verb ]
  1. grow in a special preparation

  2. <verb.change>
    the biologist grows microorganisms


Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Culturing}.]
To cultivate; to educate.

They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured. --Usher.


Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
{Colony}.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.

2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe.

3. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation;
physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline
acquired by mental and moral training; civilization;
refinement in manners and taste.

What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
Shairp.

The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.

4. (Biol.)
(a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such
as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular
organisms) in artificial media or under artificial
conditions.
(b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
cultivation.

Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals
or plants in artificial media is called {tissue
culture}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

5. (Cartography) Those details of a map, collectively, which
do not represent natural features of the area delineated,
as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses,
bridges, meridians, and parallels.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Culture fluid}, {Culture medium} a fluid in which
microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for
purposes of study or as a means of modifying their
virulence. If the fluid is gelled by, for example, the use
of agar, it then is called, depending on the vessel in
which the gelled medium is contained, a plate, a slant, or
a stab.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

  1. This culture is just so disposable _ a McDonald's culture.
  2. This culture is just so disposable _ a McDonald's culture.
  3. In this way, the long, global tradition of Hispanic culture can give inner-city Hispanic students a historically accurate sense of how they got where they are.
  4. The Parents Music Resource Center founded by Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore says it is promoting truth-in-packaging to help parents and their children deal with an entertainment culture that is increasingly violent and sexually explicit.
  5. If Western culture goes, this kind of curiosity goes too, and with it our chance of learning about and learning from other cultures.
  6. Meetings of EU environment ministers in Dresden, and culture ministers in Wuerzburg, Germany.
  7. The Canadian Museum of Civilization opens Thursday on the banks of the Ottawa River, giving Canada an extravagant combination of high-tech and culture aimed at luring more visitors to the national capital.
  8. The record shows that culture cannot be an important hindrance to prosperity, for a simple reason: culture changes slowly, but economic performance changes rapidly.
  9. The record shows that culture cannot be an important hindrance to prosperity, for a simple reason: culture changes slowly, but economic performance changes rapidly.
  10. It can determine in hours if a cell has been infected with AIDS, for example, something that would take six weeks using tests in a culture medium, Fildes said.
  11. You defend your culture or you simply imitate.'
  12. A few of the signs were drawn from abroad, particularly American sign language, but by far the largest majority have their roots in Thailand and its culture.
  13. Those who care about intellectual culture will want to pay attention to this brave band of former anti-Americans.
  14. The callers "took offense at his attributing these sentiments to black culture and wrapping it in the mantle of black tradition," says an NAACP spokesman.
  15. This custom needs to be outlawed in the interests of objectivity and a 'rescue culture'. I hope that the lessons learned from the current spate of avoidable receiverships will be used by the authorities to amend the regime.
  16. Carolyn Lipson-Walker, whose doctoral dissertation is titled "Shalom Y'all: The Folklore and Culture of Southern Jews," said Southern Jews have fused their social and religious practices to produce a dual culture.
  17. The terrorists long ago learned the lesson that with hostages in hand, the U.S. political culture will reflexively stand strategy on its head by making any judgments about military engagement subordinate to the hostage issue.
  18. Brown Shipley chose a different course; it formed a holding company in 1960 to buy other lending operations, including leasing and consumer credit. The bank's culture was by this time more staid than evenAlexander Brown might have wished.
  19. Gorbachev is expected to use his speech to spell out the kind of cooperation the Soviets are looking for in human rights, environmental protection, culture and the battle against terrorism.
  20. "We have to bring art and culture alive for baby boomers," he says.
  21. We may not yet have totally won the fight against the permissive drug culture of the 1960s and '70s.
  22. The dust jacket of Mort Rosenblum's book on French culture and the French, "Mission to Civilize" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 470 pages, $19.95), displays a superb drawing by the cartoonist Sempe.
  23. But as a monitor of our screen culture, you should be more conscientious in warning readers about how debased the video experience can be in the hands of some modern video companies.
  24. Anti-Semitism, emigration and the development of Jewish culture are on the agenda.
  25. But the chains need to be rationalised and the culture changed.
  26. But a president inherits his time and place; he does not choose his history or culture.
  27. The violent Sikh campaign grew out of the extremists' call for a separate homeland to preserve their culture and faith in a country where they form just 2 percent of the population of 880 million.
  28. Having them as sort of role models." Step aside noh and kabuki, and make way for the Metropolitan Opera, Zubin Mehta and "42nd Street." Those familiar names in such Western culture capitals as London and New York are finding homes in Tokyo.
  29. Khatami, father of Mohammed Khatami, the minister of culture and Islamic guidance, died Thursday of an illness at a Tehran hospital, the agency said.
  30. Factsheet Five also publishes poetry reviews and keeps track of "cassette culture," people who record and distribute their own music.
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