Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
— Alfred North Whitehead  ·  No category

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culture ['kʌltʃɚ] 词频2 词根: cult
n. 文化;[生物学]（微生物等的）培养;修养;养殖; vt. 培植，培养;
💡 cult耕种，培养+ure抽象名词→[对心灵的]培养→人类文化
"the otherness of an alien culture"
异域文化的不同情调
近义：incubate, breed, cultivate, hatch, socialize, civilise 反义：philistinism, barbarism, roughness
activity [æk'tɪviti] 词频1 词根: act
n. 活动;活跃，敏捷;活动力;教育活动;
💡 act行动，做+ivity状态→活动
"The streets were noisy and full of activity."
街上熙熙攘攘，车水马龙。
近义：motion, action, job, occupation, profession 反义：idleness, inaction, inertia, laziness, leisure, otioseness
beauty ['bjuti] 词频1
n. 美好;美人;完美;突出的范例;
💡 bell, beau 美好
"Her beauty appeared ageless."
她的美显得经久不衰。
近义：loveliness, niceness, preciousness, prettiness, pulchritude, sightliness 反义：hideousness, plainness, unsightliness
humane [hju'men] 词频5 词根: hum
adj. 仁爱的，慈善的;高尚的;
💡 hum土,地+an属于...的+e→有人情的，仁爱的
"Is it humane to kill animals for food?"
宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道 吗 ?
近义：humanitarian, philanthropist, benefactor, altruist, humanistic, kind 反义：heinous, horrible, inhuman, merciless, atrocious, outrageous
feeling ['filɪŋ] 词频1
n. 感觉，知觉，情绪;感情;气氛; adj. 富有感情的，有感觉的;有同情心的，仁慈的; v. 感觉;认为(feel的现在分词);
💡 feel感觉+ing行业,状态，行为 →感情
"She has no feeling for the suffering of others."
她对别人的痛苦没有同情心.
近义：impression, pathos, sensation, sentiment, thrill, idea
information ['ɪnfɚ'meʃən] 词频1 词根: in
n. 信息，数据;通知;消息;知识;
💡 in进+form形状+ation名词后缀→通知的东西→信息
"The information and advice are boiled down to bare essentials."
各种资料与建议缩短为极简单的要点.
近义：notice, word, communication, info, intelligence, gen

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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
"Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings."
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
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