humanity

英 [hjʊ'mænɪtɪ] 美[hjʊ'mænəti]
  • n. 人类;人道;仁慈;人文学科

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词态变化


复数: humanities;

中文词源


humanity 人,人类

human-,人的,-ity,集合名词后缀。引申词义人,人类。

英英释意


1. all of the inhabitants of the earth;
"all the world loves a lover"
"she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
2. the quality of being humane
3. the quality of being human;
"he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"

英文词源


humanity (n.)
late 14c., "kindness, graciousness," from Old French humanité, umanité "human nature; humankind, life on earth; pity," from Latin humanitatem (nominative humanitas) "human nature; philanthropy, kindness; good breeding, refinement; the human race, mankind," from humanus (see human). Sense of "human nature, human form" is c. 1400; that of "human race" first recorded mid-15c.

同义词辨析


man, mankind, humanity

这些名词均有"人类"之意。

man: 指各时代的全体人类。

mankind: 集体名词,语体庄重,泛指过去、现在和未来的人类。

humanity: 书面用词,集合名词,多用于文学作品中,作人类解时,侧重有同情心、理解力和崇高品质。

考试真题


But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The latest congressional report acknowledges the critical importance of technical training, but also asserts that the study of the humanities (人文学科)and social sciences must remain central components of America's educational system at all levels.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Under these circumstances, it's natural to look for what may appear to be the most "practical" way out of the problem "Major in a subject designed to get you a job" seems the obvious answer to some, though this ignores the fact that many disciplines in the humanities characterized as "soft" often, in fact, lead to employment and success in the long run

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The humanities and STEM subjects should be given equal importance.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The error here is far too deep: not only do humans need nature for themselves, but the very idea that humanity and the natural world are separable things is profoundly damaging.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

humanity and nature are complementary to each other

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

It is extremely harmful to think that humanity and the natural world can be separable things.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

An obsession (沉迷) with time – saving, gaining, wasting, losing, and mastering it – seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time

出自-2011年6月听力原文

We will lose a vital part of what has made humanity as a whole so successful as a species.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Demographers (人口统计学者) reckon that three-quarters of humanity could be city-dwelling by 2050, with most of the increase coming in the fast-growing towns of Asia and Africa.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The city is the building block of civilisation and of almost everything people do; a guidebook to the city is really, therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever-growing chunk of humanity chooses to live

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

But the idea that institutions or their students must decide between humanities and science is false.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

George Herbert Mead said that humans are talked into humanity.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Ever since humanity began to farm our own food, we've faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence A will be "either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity", and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the future o

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

That institute examined a wider range of potential problems for humanity, while the LCFI has a narrow focus.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The experiment highlights the importance of morality: without it, how can a robot decide whom to save or what's best for humanity, especially if it can't calculate survival odds?

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The robot who rescues Spooner's life in I, Robot follows Asimov's zeroth larobots cannot harm humanity as opposed to individual humans or allow humanity to come to harm—an expansion of the first law that allows robots to determine what's in the greater go

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

While the world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about ai, raising concerns that humanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to highlight the positives the A

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

As education improved, humanity's productivity potential increased as well.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed.

出自-2011年考研翻译原文

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of fulfillment and opportunity for all.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

During the late 1990s,national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( ' , AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

In response, the American Academy formed the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education”.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope( ' , TMT), a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity’s view of the cosmos.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

实用场景例句


The judge was praised for his courage and humanity.
法官的勇气和人道受到称赞。

牛津词典

united by a sense of common humanity
因一种同是人的情感而团结在一起

牛津词典

The story was used to emphasize the humanity of Jesus.
人们用这个故事来强调耶稣人性的一面。

牛津词典

crimes against humanity
危害人类罪

牛津词典

...students majoring in the humanities.
主修人文学科的学生

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Her speech showed great maturity and humanity.
她的演讲思想高度成熟,并且洋溢着博爱精神。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a man who's almost lost his humanity in his bitter hatred of his rivals.
因痛恨竞争对手而几乎丧失人性的男子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a young lawyer full of illusions and love of humanity.
满脑子幻想并且博爱的年轻律师

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They face charges of committing crimes against humanity.
他们被控犯有反人类罪。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

" But. Dr. Graham, is humanity ready for an ultimate weapon? "
“ 可是, 格雷厄姆博土, 人类已准备好应对终极武器了 吗 ?

英汉非文学 - 科幻

Developing a sense of humanity hinges on a good humanities education.
人文精神的建立首先要靠人文教育.

期刊摘选

Megatron: Strong Survival ability; Less idealistic of humanity.
威震天: 生存能力超强; 实干而不理想化.

期刊摘选

Humanity is a main line from beginning to end in Marxian philosophy.
人是马克思哲学的中心话题和核心内容,人学是贯穿马克思哲学思想的一条主线.

期刊摘选

The uninhibited mutations and grotesque symbolic language of dreams interrupt the distinct images of contemporary humanity.
现代人的鲜明形象中又穿插了梦境的自由变化和怪诞的象征语言.

期刊摘选

One day our humanity will face resource depletion and the fate of extinction.
总有一天我们人类也会面临资源耗尽和灭亡的命运.

期刊摘选

These new forms of art of humanity to the wonders that exist in all cultures.
这些新的艺术形式将各种文化的奇妙之处展现在世人面前.

期刊摘选

Over time humanity has been stripped of consciousness.
人类随时间演变已被剥夺了意识.

期刊摘选

Humanity lives in a world based upon decay, illness, aging and death, and reincarnation.
人类就生活在这样一个基于衰退 、 生病 、 老化和死亡, 以及转世再生的世界里.

期刊摘选

AMANPOUR: You said the system has no humanity.
阿曼普尔: 你说那个系统没有人性.

期刊摘选

Such an act is a disgrace to humanity.
这种行为是人类的耻辱.

《简明英汉词典》

He spent himself in the service of humanity.
他耗尽了毕生的精力为人类服务.

《简明英汉词典》

We should treat animals with humanity.
我们应该以仁慈之心对待动物.

《简明英汉词典》

Humanity in bathing suits covered the sand.
海滩上全是穿着泳装的人.

《简明英汉词典》

Advances in science help all humanity.
科学的进步有助于全人类.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

There is great humanity in all the writings of Tolstoy.
托尔斯泰所有的作品都充满了伟大的仁爱.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

China ought to make a greater contribution to humanity.
中国应当对人类作出较大贡献.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The story was used to emphasize the humanity of Jesus.
人们用这个故事来强调耶稣人性的一面。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

In the name of humanity I ask the government to reappraise this important issue.
我以人道的名义请求政府重新评估这一重大问题。

柯林斯例句