What is called 'modern civilization' is not the result of a balanced development of all man's nature.
所谓“现代文明”并不是人的天性平衡发展的结果，
新概念英语第四册
Lesson 22 Knowledge and progress
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 文明，文化;开化，教化;修养;文明社会;
💡 civil市民；礼貌+ization...化→文明 → 文明，文化
"Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse."
文明已濒临毁灭的边缘。
近义：humanity, mankind, world, civilisation, kultur, culture
n. 结果;（尤指足球比赛的）胜利;[体]比分;成功实现的事;
vi. 发生，产生;归结为，导致;后果，终结;由…而造成[产生];
💡 re反问+sult跳→反回来的东西→结果
"Is personality the result of conditioning from parents and society, or are we born with it?"
个性是受父母和社会熏陶的结果，还是我们生而有之？
近义：implication, incidence, outcome, outgrowth, produce, progeny
n. 发展，进化;被发展的状态;新生事物，新产品;开发区;
💡 develop发展+ment表名词 →发展发达，发展
"The development was bitterly opposed by the local community."
这一开发项目遭到了当地社区的愤怒抵制。
近义：progress, unfoldment, upgrowth, evolution, evolvement, growth
反义：backwardness, underdevelopment, atrophy, degeneracy, degeneration
n. 自然;天性;天理;类型;
💡 nat出生的+ure状态→出生状态→天性
"the adversarial nature of the two-party system"
两党制的对抗性
近义：milieu, surroundings, circumambiency, medium, ecosystem, environment
adj. 现代的;近代的;新式的;当代风格的;
n. 现代人，现代主义者;时髦人士;[印]现代字体，指印刷中所用的一种字体;
💡 音“摩登
"The monarchy is seen by many people as an anachronism in the modern world."
很多人认为君主制在现代世界不合时宜。
近义：mod, new, newfangled, novel, recent, unworn