civilization

名词 n. 专有名词
/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/    /ˌsɪv.ə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/|/ˌsɪv.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/|/ˌsɪv.ə.lɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/|/ˌsəv.ə.laɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/|[ˌsəv.ə.lɑe̯ˈzæɪ.ʃən]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — the Aztec civilization
  2. Human society, particularly civil society. uncountable
    — A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.
  3. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized. countable,uncountable
    — The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
  4. The state or quality of being civilized. countable,uncountable
    — He was a man of great civilization.
  5. The act of rendering a criminal process civil. countable,obsolete,uncountable
专有名词
  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. capitalized,sometimes
    — Near-synonym: ecumene (archaic)

词形变化

civilizations plural civilisation alternative,UK civilisation alternative,UK

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilize + -ation or civil + -ization.
词源 2
Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilize + -ation or civil + -ization.
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