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 humanity [hju(:)'mæniti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 人性, 人类, 博爱

  1. We should treat people and animals with humanity.
    我们应该仁慈地对待人和动物。
  2. Such a man is a stain to humanity.
    这种人是人类的耻辱。


humanity
[ noun ]
  1. the quality of being humane

  2. <noun.attribute>
  3. the quality of being human

  4. <noun.attribute>
    he feared the speedy decline of all manhood
  5. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

  6. <noun.animal>
    all the world loves a lover
    she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women


Humanity \Hu*man"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Humanities}. [L. humanitas: cf.
F. humanit['e]. See {Human}.]
1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by
which he is distinguished from other beings.

2. Mankind collectively; the human race.

But hearing oftentimes
The still, and music humanity. --Wordsworth.

It is a debt we owe to humanity. --S. S. Smith.

3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings,
dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a
disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and
to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. ``The
common offices of humanity and friendship.'' --Locke.

4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in
classical and polite literature.

Polished with humanity and the study of witty
science. --Holland.

5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or
elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the
ancient classics; belles-letters.

Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history,
and arch[ae]ology of Greece and Rome, were very
commonly called liter[ae] humaniores, or, in English,
the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the
liter[ae] divin[ae], or divinity. --G. P. Marsh.

  1. I don't want to ennoble it too much, but it's about the strength of humanity of this woman as opposed to the cold, inhumane aspect of the law that said she shouldn't help anybody, under those circumstances.
  2. Yet both served humanity with an identically relentless love.
  3. But Mr. Hurt, under Randa Haines's understated direction, gives this character surprising humanity.
  4. Although the most experienced man of the sea, he has rejected almost all of that ethos in favour of a shrewd, patient knowledge of humanity.
  5. "Religious dogma has become part of the marrow of humanity.
  6. Your declaration of independence claims the forces of darkness have served the victory of light; the longed-for age of humanity is dawning.
  7. At the base of all humanity there was a streak of violence.
  8. The man's face is packed with all the dense humanity of Rembrandt's finest portraits. Like Rembrandt's genius, authenticity is a mystery no cartel can explain.
  9. "I was born a Moslem, but true religion is the service of humanity," said Edhi, a stalky man with a flowing white beard and a gruff voice. "I'm just one man.
  10. Loving humanity as an idea, they can then produce solutions as ideas.
  11. They include human evolutionary history; the development of language, agriculture and urbanisation; the effects of disease; the question of race; the promise and danger of genetic engineering; and the genetic prospects for humanity's future.
  12. Now he focuses on a younger generation of marrieds and about-to-be marrieds, contributing an equal portion of humanity and understanding.
  13. Serreau directed the original Three Men And A Baby and still seems to think films are like Christmas crackers: funny hats, a few plot surprises and a pinbrained serio-comic message about humanity.
  14. "The incredible thing about the rape scene in the movie is that it isn't sexual," Foster said. "It's about violating humanity, and saying, `This isn't a person.
  15. Make a career of humanity.
  16. "Simply stated, opening a bar that glamorizes any aspect of Adolf Hitler or the Nazi regime is an offense against our common humanity.
  17. "This problem concerns all of humanity," he told reporters shortly after becoming environment secretary.
  18. "We strongly feel the duty to use Hiroshima to sound an alarm bell for the future of all humanity.
  19. In remarks prepared for delivery, the new president proposed setting up an international criminal court to try drug traffickers, who he said were guilty of "crimes against humanity." Gaviria was sworn in at 4:22 p.m. EDT.
  20. The writers said in a study, "The Demography of Islamic Nations," that the growth would boost the Moslem world's share of humanity from the current 18 percent to 25 percent by the year 2020.
  21. The minister condemned the reported killing of Higgins as an act against all humanity.
  22. Birch, 71, a University of Sydney biologist from 1960 until his recent retirement and veteran of science-religion conferences, maintains that the interrelationship of nature, humanity and God finds support in physics.
  23. It just happens.' Sisson's work is steeped in a cocktail of a form of Tory political thinking which is now all but extinguished by Thatcherism; a high Church of England theology; and a jaundiced view of humanity.
  24. A socialist since his university days, the 63-year-old prime minister said socialism was still the answer to "equalize humanity" - but this did not mean dogmatic adherence to the socialist models of other nations.
  25. In a speech to diplomats, John Paul described AIDS as a "terrible evil" which threatens all of humanity.
  26. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge James J. Rashid told Susan Barbier, 29, that she had "sunk to an intolerable level of humanity" in the May 1988 indident, for which she was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
  27. "Look over your shoulders and remember the frailty of our humanity and the eternalness of our spirit," Monsignor William Scheyd, pastor of St. Augustine Cathedral, said just before ceremony broke up early during a sudden downpour.
  28. A brief synopsis cannot convey the rich texture Malle contributes to the melancholy tale, nor the deep humanity.
  29. "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh," he frequently said, quoting a Psalm about God's laughter at humanity's blustering presumptions of absolute solutions.
  30. In the limpest way imaginable, he wonders whether there is enough news to sustain listeners' interest on a round-the-clock basis. 'What this creature doesn't realise is that most of humanity's problems can be ascribed to an excess of media.
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