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civilization [`sɪvl.ə'zeʃən]

n. 文明, 教化

[法] 文明, 文化, 文明国家的总称

Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
中国文化是世界上最古老的文化之一。
These letters revealed her wit and civilization.
这些信流露出她的教养和才华。
American civilization differs from ours.
美国的社会和生活方式和我们的不同。

civilization

[ noun ]

a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

<noun.group>

the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization

the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

<noun.process>

a particular society at a particular time and place

<noun.group>

early Mayan civilization

the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

<noun.attribute>

a man of intellectual refinement

he is remembered for his generosity and civilization

Civilization \Civ`i*li*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. civilisation.]
1. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized;
national culture; refinement.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good
things connected with manners, and with
civilization, have, in this European world of ours,
depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the
spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion.
--Burke

2. (Law) Rendering a criminal process civil. [Obs.]

There is no suggestion of a major civilization.
"My mother thought the Hudson River divided civilization from the rest of the world.
A few Aborigines were still doing such paintings on rock shelters as recently as the early 1970s, but the art form declined as Western civilization encroached.
"I think it is most unwise for a president of the United States or a major candidate for the presidency to be drawn into a hypothetical discussion of when we would launch our nuclear forces and trigger the destruction of human civilization," he said.
Now everything hummed with that modern drone of smooth-running machinery, the bass notes of this civilization.
Seniors can study marine life in Polynesia, culture in Japan, genealogy in London, the Byzantine civilization in Turkey, or other topics at more than 100 overseas locations.
Dimitrios I, the first Greek Orthodox patriarch to visit the United States, arrived Monday and warned that civilization is threatened by a turn away from morality and spirituality.
A licensed government intellectual, Francis Fukuyama, recently announced in The National Interest that history is, so to speak, at an end since the course of human progress has now culminated in the glorious full stop of American civilization.
Western civilization is one of a number of valid alternatives, and therefore not worth dying for.
The greenhouse effect is the result of gases emitted by modern civilization reducing the heat normally radiated by the globe into space, just as the glass in a greenhouse raises the temperature inside.
So regulation in some form or other is one of the prices we pay for our complex civilization.
In a country where corruption is so rampant and the rule of law is under constant siege, the integrity of Colombia's social institutions is a cherished vestige of civilization, however elitist they may seem to some.
Judiciary Committee members implied that Robert Bork's appointment to the Supreme Court will imperil civilization.
Recognizing that the success of the revolution would mean the destruction of the civilization that has produced such triumphs, the sensitive Hyacinth becomes paralyzed.
The 1989 Ingersoll Prizes, honoring authors whose works affirm Western civilization's moral principles, were awarded Wednesday to novelist George Garrett and educator Edward O. Wilson.
The suburbs, in contrast, offered "the best application of the arts of civilization to which mankind has yet obtained."
"The civilization of Atlantis did not vanish into the sea.
Such findings bolster the arguments of those who say an ancient civilization developed in Hong Kong quite independent from the Han civilization that arose in China's northern plains along the Yellow River.
Such findings bolster the arguments of those who say an ancient civilization developed in Hong Kong quite independent from the Han civilization that arose in China's northern plains along the Yellow River.
But he also wants passengers to feel they haven't left civilization merely by walking down a flight of stairs.
Their mission is to save Walden Pond from developers, to keep it free from the blot of civilization.
Without once looking away from his chosen microcosm of snotty children at loose ends, Mr. McInerney is able to describe a larger world in which hordes of wild bourgeoisie descend from god-knows-where in leased BMWs and lay waste to a civilization.
Now the world seems suddenly smaller, civilization's reach extended by the greasy fingers of an oil spill.
Sadly, the relatively sunny history of the northern Yugoslavs has not always been a guarantee of superior civilization.
Since 1985, the society's identical META receiver at the observatory has scanned the space visible from the Northern Hemisphere seeking a radio signal from an alien civilization.
"It is one of the prerequisites of our civilization," the academy said of Corey's work.
It is no longer possible, he wrote, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests.
Their basic thesis, which we find even less palatable from the pen of a foreign observer, is that "grass roots" Latin America has little or nothing to do with Western civilization and freedom under the rule of law.
A typical schoolbook for white children taught that blacks were inferior. "The white stands on a much higher plane of civilization and is more developed.
It's really too late now for medic or shrink: I'm dying of civilization.

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