释义 |
huˈmanics rare. [irreg. f. human + -ics pl. suffix.] The subject or study of human affairs.
a1864Collins is cited by Webster. 1937R. S. Morton Woman Surgeon xxxi. 351 The business side of practice is necessary, but its art and humanics are what carry us on. 1952King Geo. VI & Industry: a Tribute (Industr. Welfare Soc.) p. ii, We give ungrudging honour to these pioneer students of the new science of what has been termed ‘Industrial Humanics’. 1958Progress Autumn 266/2 But, to British eyes, the American method looks superficial; it seems to rest on two doubtful assumptions... The second is that what Americans have called the ‘humanics’ of the subject can be reduced wholly to its ‘mechanics’. |