mid-15c., "the tilling of land," from Middle French culture and directly from Latin cultura "a cultivating, agriculture," figuratively "care, culture, an honoring," from past participle stem of colere "tend, guard, cultivate, till" (see colony). The figurative sense of "cultivation through education" is first attested c. 1500. Meaning "the intellectual side of civilization" is from 1805; that of "collective customs and achievements of a people" is from 1867.
For without culture or holiness, which are always the gift of a very few, a man may renounce wealth or any other external thing, but he cannot renounce hatred, envy, jealousy, revenge. Culture is the sanctity of the intellect. [William Butler Yeats]
Slang culture vulture is from 1947. Culture shock first recorded 1940.
实用例句
1. The city of Memphis is promoting a populist approach to culture.
孟菲斯市在推行文化的民粹主义道路。
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2. Our culture is more complex than he knows. Wheels within wheels.
我们的文化比他所知道的要复杂得多，相当庞杂。
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3. They no longer worry about the homogenization of culture.
他们不再担心文化的同质化。
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4. She speaks no Japanese and is unfamiliar with Japanese culture.
她不会说日语，也不了解日本文化。
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5. There is just not enough fun and frivolity in culture today.
