Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
— Julian Jaynes  ·  Civilization

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civilization [,sɪvələ'zeʃən] 词频2 词根: civilize
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
living ['lɪvɪŋ] 词频1
adj. 活（着）的;现存的;在使用中的;逼真的; n. 生计;生活方式;生存之道; v. 活( live的现在分词);居住;以…为生;（按照规矩）管理生活;
💡 liv生活+ing名词后缀 → 生活，生计
"The prisoners were living in appalling conditions."
囚犯的居住条件极为恶劣。
近义：livelihood, sustenance, live, quickened, surviving, alive 反义：inert, insentient, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, unfeeling
everyone ['ɛvrɪwʌn] 词频2
pron. 每人，人人;
💡 every每个的+one一个人→ pron.每人，人人
"The news astonished everyone."
这消息使大家十分惊讶。
近义：all, everybody
size [saɪz] 词频1
n. 大小，尺寸;规模;胶料，浆糊;巨大，大量; vt. 按大小排列;改变…的大小;上胶料，上浆;上涂料; adj. 一定尺寸的;
💡 四(si)则(ze)运算量 尺寸
"This report is an acknowledgement of the size of the problem."
这个报告承认了问题的严重性。
近义：dimension, magnitude, roominess, spaciousness, vastness, volume 反义：shortness, slightness, tininess, trifle, minuteness, diminutiveness
know [no] 词频1 词根: 知道
v. 知道;了解;认识;确信; n. 知情;
💡 知道know的人爱说自己不no知道
"Do you know your ABC?"
你认识所有的字母吗？
近义：learn, understand, get, cognize, comprehend, meet
else [ɛls] 词频1
adv. 其他;否则;另外; adj. 别的;其他的;
"That proposal is nothing else other than a patchwork."
那个建议只是一个大杂烩而已.
近义：other, otherwise, unequal, unlike, different, dissimilar

🏷 更多「Civilization」名言

"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it."
— Henry Allen
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
— Robert Ingersoll
"Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future."
— Bourke Cockran
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos."
— Will Durant
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
— Jane Addams
"Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few."
— Amos Bronson Alcott
"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
— Havelock Ellis
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