英単語

cultureの意味・使い方・発音

culture

英 ['kʌltʃə] 美 ['kʌltʃɚ]
  • n. 文化、文明; 耕作; 栽培
  • vt.[細胞][マイクロ]培養する(イコール培養する)

語源


文化植栽、栽培、文明、文化

cult-「耕す」から。culture、すなわち、耕す、栽培する、から派生した。

英語の語源


culture (n.)
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.

例文


1. The city of Memphis is promoting a populist approach to culture .
メンフィス市は文化のポピュリズムの道を進めている。

2.Our culture is more complex than he knows.Wheels within wheels.
私たちの文化は彼が知っているよりずっと複雑で、かなり複雑です。

3.They no longer worry about the homogenization of culture .
彼らは文化の同質化を心配していない。

4.She speaks no Japanese and is unfamiliar with Japanese culture .
彼女は日本語が話せないし、日本文化も知らない。

5.There is just not enough fun and frivolity in culture today.
今の文化は楽ではありません。

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