基本释义
- n.
- 文明; 文明社会; 社会文明; 人类文明的生活
词性变化
- 复数:civilizations;
实用例句
the technology of modern civilization
现代文明的技术
牛津词典
The Victorians regarded the railways as bringing progress and civilization.
维多利亚时代的人认为铁路带来了进步和文明。
牛津词典
the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome
古希腊和古罗马的社会文明
牛津词典
diseases that are common in Western civilization
西方文明社会的常见弊病
牛津词典
Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
环境的破坏威胁着整个文明世界。
牛津词典
It's good to be back in civilization after two weeks in a tent!
在帐篷里住了两个星期后又回到人类文明的生活可真好呀！
牛津词典
The ancient civilizations of Central and Latin America were founded upon corn...
古代中美洲和拉丁美洲的文明社会是建立在玉米之上的。
It seemed to him that western civilization was in grave economic and cultural danger.
在他看来，西方文明似乎陷入严重的经济和文化危机。
...our advanced state of civilisation.
我们高度发达的文明
...when I returned to civilization.
我重新回到文明地区时
As a result, Indus civilization people supplemented their diet with hunting.
结果是, 印度河流域的人们以打猎为生.
期刊摘选
Though a Tartar strain in many North China peasants, there is also a veneer of civilization.
虽然不少华北农民具有鞑靼民族的血统, 但同时他们也拥有悠久的文明传统.
期刊摘选
Even the most seasoned experts and civilization are having difficulties in correctly interpreting the Chinese phenomenon.
即使是精通华夏文明史的一些专家也很难解释目前在中国发生的一些现象.
期刊摘选
Two hundred years seems like the blink of an eye in the history of Chinese civilization.
二百年时间在中国文明史上只不过是一瞬间.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Each civilization is born, it culminates, and it decay.
各种文明都要历经诞生, 鼎盛和衰落.
《用法词典》
Civilization was cradled somewhere in Asia.
文明发源于亚洲某地.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
The ancient civilization fellinto oblivion.
古代的文明被遗忘了.
《简明英汉词典》
The old civilization was fast falling into decay.
旧文化很快地衰落下去.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
It is said that civilization is always on the move.
有人说文明总是在进步.
《简明英汉词典》
Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
希腊是西方文明的发源地.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
People have no letters at the primary stage of civilization.
在文明的初期,人类是没有文字的.
《简明英汉词典》
One age bequeaths its civilization to the next.
前一代将其文明传给后一代.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
The Song Dynasty contributed three great inventions to world civilization.
宋朝为世界文明贡献出三大发明.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
They were in the van of civilization.
他们是文明的先导者.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
All civilization ought to be aroused against war.
应唤起整个文明世界来反对战争.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
The book describes the march of civilization from ancient Egyptian times to the present.
该书描述了从古埃及时代至现代文化的发展情况.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
Rome was the matrix of Western civilization.
罗马是西方文明之母.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
真题例句
Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文They got a better understanding of early human civilization.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Some have 26 vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 27 undergone changes as they have come into contact with an 28 expanding machine civilization.
2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section AThe author is skeptical of Greek civilization.
2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but no freedom anywhere.
2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文Both men emphasized the dirt and exhaustion of war, the fragments of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.
2012年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section ⅠIf you get lost without a phone or a compass, and you literally can't find north, a few tricks to help you navigate back to civilization, one of which is to follow the land.
2019年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section ⅠTrail blazes, tire tracks, and other features can lead you to civilization.
2019年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ英英释义
1. 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"
2. the social process whereby societies achieve civilization
3. a particular society at a particular time and place;
"early Mayan 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"
同义词辨析
civilization, culture
这两个名词均含"文化，文明"之意。
- civilization： 指广义的文化，标志人类发展开化的进程。强调物质方面的文明。
- culture： 侧重指精神方面，即多由科技、文化等所体现的人类智力开发的程度。