| 释义 |
‖ mura, n.|mura|
Pl. unchanged.
[Jap.]
In Japan, a village or hamlet; also, an administrative division corresponding to such a rural community.
[1890B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 252 Most names of this class are originally nothing more than the names of the localities in which the families bearing them resided, as..Matsu-mura, ‘pine-tree village’.] 1922J. W. R. Scott Foundations of Japan xxx. 262 The village..is joined administratively to another village,..in order to form a mura (commune). 1970J. W. Hall Japan from Prehist. to Mod. Times vii. 130 Village units, called mura, were encouraged to develop their own organs of self-government. 1989Christian Science Monitor 30 Mar. 14 He lives outside the tightly woven social structure, the enclosed and supportive world of the mura (village), and its extensions into family and company. |