meme

英 [miːm] 美[mim]

畅通词汇

meme 模仿传递行为

由当代英国演化生物学家根据希腊语杜撰出来的一个词。来自希腊语mimeisthai,模仿，词源同mime,mimetic.用于指生物的模仿传递行为，拼写部分受到gene的影响。

1. a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by nongenetic means (as by imitation);: "memes are the cultrual counterpart of genes"

meme (n.): 1976, introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene," coined by him from Greek sources, such as mimeisthai "to imitate" (see mime), and intended to echo gene.
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'. [Richard Dawkins, "The Selfish Gene," 1976]

It also analyzes the relationship between alienation , domestication and the transmitting of meme.: 在此基础上分析了归化翻译和井化翻译与模因传播的关系.

The picture a real buzz in the internet becoming a very well known meme.: 这张房子失火的相片在网络上人气超旺并渐渐成为了一条很红的新闻.