civilisation是什么意思？

civilisation

英[sɪvɪlaɪ'zeɪʃən] 美[sɪvɪlaɪ'zeɪʃən]

• n. 文明，文化；

例句

• Warnings that curiosity can be destructive stretch back to the very beginning of civilisation. 对于好奇心具有破坏作用的警告可以追溯到教化之初.
• Scholars were drawn to Byzantium civilisation by its art at the very beginning. 学者们最开始是被拜占庭的艺术吸引的.
• This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation. 这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。
• ...those values of our culture that are essential to civilisation as we know it. 我们文化中那些构成我们所熟悉的文明社会之根基的价值观
• Three major narratives intertwine within Foucault's text, 'Madness and Civilisation'... 3个主要故事在福柯的《疯癫与文明》一书当中密切相联。
• ...our advanced state of civilisation. 我们高度发达的文明
• ...Byzantine civilisation... 拜占庭文明
• He really thinks that European civilisation is morally bankrupt. 他确实认为欧洲文明道德沦丧。

英语六级真题

The city is the building block of civilisation and of almost everything people do; a guidebook to the city is really, therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever-growing chunk of humanity chooses to live.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the social process whereby societies achieve civilization
  2. a particular society at a particular time and place;
  "early Mayan civilization"
  3. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations);
  "the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization"
  4. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste;
  "a man of intellectual refinement""he is remembered for his generosity and civilization"