civilized的意思|civilized的解释-里氏词典

civilized ['sɪvə`laɪzd]

a. 文明的, 有礼的

Not civilized; barbarous.
不文明的；野蛮的
Many a rough man has been civilized by his wife.
许多粗野的男人在妻子的开导下变得文雅了。
Such behavior is unacceptable in a civilized society.
这样的行为在文明社会里是不能接受的。

civilized

[ adj ]

having a high state of culture and development both social and technological

<adj.all>

terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world

marked by refinement in taste and manners

<adj.all>

cultivated speech

cultured Bostonians

cultured tastes

a genteel old lady

polite society

Civilize \Civ"i*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Civilized}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Civilizing}.] [Cf. F. civilizer, fr.L. civilis civil.
See {Civil}.]
1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules
and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
Her land to civilize, as to subdue. --Dryden

2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.]
``Civilizing adultery.'' --Milton.

Syn: To polish; refine; humanize.

Civilized \Civ"i*lized\, a.
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts,
learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not
reconcilable with the present state of civilized
society. --J. Quincy.

"This should be done for the sake of our future, to avoid having a situation when infant mortality its twice that of any civilized country," Yeltsin said.
But he told more than 800 people during a morning session that civilized people "have long abandoned burning at the stake as a response to blasphemy.
"The concept of organs being bought and sold for money is entirely unacceptable in a civilized society," Health Minister Roger Freeman told a House of Commons committee during debate on proposed legislation outlawing organ sales.
"White people lived in civilized places, but next door in Alexandra, black people lived in a place where pigs would live," said Mayekiso, who will continue his testimony Wednesday.
Kittani also said that "the Iranian regime has subjected the prisoners to every atrocity from which a civilized human being would shrink.
Authors have led demonstrations of outrage at the threat from Iran's fundamentalist patriarch, who has refused to accept Rushdie's apology, and President Bush has called the threat an insult to the civilized world.
But as a civilized people, as a caring people, we cannot wait for these strategies to be implemented and succeed.
"One cannot allow a situation where actions that are incompatible with a civilized society would be in order," Primakov said after the meeting.
The travel-advice chapter offers a Victorian version of the hollow-tie trick for adventurers heading into an "imperfectly civilized land": Slit your upper arm and put some jewels inside in a small silver case embedded near the vaccination mark.
"Red Army: Get civilized, stop murdering our sons," said a placard signed, "Latvian mothers."
"However offensive that book may be, inciting murder and offering rewards for its perpetration are deeply offensive to the norm of civilized behavior." _President Bush.
It is time for the civilized world and the leaders whose job it supposedly is to protect its citizens to start asking themselves some hard questions.
Judge Bork: No civilized person wants to live in a society without a lot of privacy in it.
"No," he replied. "It's too civilized now." Only Horton Bay, a logging town on the skids when Hemingway saw it, looks the same.
"Iraq's threat makes it impossible to take seriously any pretensions on its part to be a civilized state," Britain's Foreign Office said.
Peter Riegert plays McCann's boss, whose smoothly civilized speech is meant to mask the deeper evil.
April 24 The Kansas City (Mo.) Times on the rape-attack in Central Park: The savage assault on a young investment banker by a gang of teen-age thugs in New York's Central Park is a reminder of how slowly mankind becomes civilized.
"Diplomats should refrain from indulging in mean acts incompatible with diplomats of civilized nations," he said.
How can anyone blame the senator's wife for detesting a creature that any sane and civilized person would also detest?
Falk Thomas, spokesman for the Frankfurt district court, said West German authorities acted as "representatives of the civilized world" in prosecuting the young Shiite Moslem.
Terrorism of any kind is repugnant to all values that a civilized world holds in common.
We expect action, and if we do not get it, we raise hell. I think that is a natural, civilized and appropriate reaction.
And unlike more civilized countries, Americans like country music.
Jenny, who declined to give her last name, said sex wasn't a factor in the civilized pleasure of enjoying food with others.
And of course it is necessary to show an aggressor that there is the entire civilized world against him and that there is military power.
What happended 50 years ago today right here in Germany, had not occurred since the Middle Ages in any civilized country.
The nation had to rid itself of its "truculent nostalgia" that it could still get its "way by bullying rather than by civilized agreement between free people."
Both players are monstrous villains by the lights of civilized conduct.
State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler called the threat "an affront to the entire civilized community."
You are living on a civilized continent.

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