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单词 humanity
释义
humanity
(hjuːmænɪti )
Word forms: humanities
1. uncountable noun
All the people in the world can be referred to as humanity.
They face charges of committing crimes against humanity.
...a young lawyer full of illusions and love of humanity.
Synonyms: the human race, humankind, mankind, man  
2. uncountable noun [with poss]
A person's humanity is their state of being a human being, rather than an animal or an object. [formal]
...a man who's almost lost his humanity in his bitter hatred of his rivals.
3. uncountable noun
Humanity is the quality of being kind, thoughtful, and sympathetic towards others.
Her speech showed great maturity and humanity.
Synonyms: kindness, charity, compassion, understanding  
4. plural noun
The humanities are the subjects such as history, philosophy, and literature which are concerned with human ideas and behaviour.
...students majoring in the humanities.
Quotations:
Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be madeImmanuel KantIdee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in welt bürgerlicher Absicht
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progressTennessee WilliamsCamino Real
Collocations:
basic humanity
The programme offers a crash course in basic humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
He seems to want to preserve the basic humanity of his characters.
Christianity Today
I love watching basic humanity at work.
The Sun
Just a healthy dollop of compassion, common sense and basic humanity.
The Sun
nature of humanity
He has the essential quality of a peacemaker: faith in the good nature of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
It still rings true to the nature of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
It significantly ups the ante of the original 1973 film in tackling the big p questions about the ethics of artificial consciousness and the nature of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Major themes include the transition from childhood to adulthood, the nature of humanity, and the interplay between magic, faith, and destiny.
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Nature invades and disrupts order in the major events of the narrative, both symbolically and through the inner nature of humanity.
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save humanity
This should reignite it and thus save humanity.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Does one have to sacrifice his humanity to save humanity?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The unintended irony is that this is a film about saving humanity, but it's devoid of any human characters.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
sense of humanity
The way that understanding and donating to a cause awakens our compassion and sense of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Maybe we have all lost our sense of humanity.
The Sun
In disaster, these people did not turn to animalism but to a deeper sense of humanity, not to selfishness but altruism.
Christianity Today
Even his love songs are concerned with a broad sense of humanity, never just one person.
Times, Sunday Times
And what a great testament to our shared sense of humanity that would be.
Christianity Today
shared humanity
In doing so, he discovers a shared humanity lurking behind those despised leaflets.
Times, Sunday Times
In the seemingly superficial exchanges, we perhaps express our deepest belief in a shared humanity.
Times,Sunday Times
Sadly we seem to have reached a stage where adult citizens have 'civilised' themselves out of a sense of shared humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Meaningful relationships and a recognition of our shared humanity.
The Sun
Its intentions — striving to express lost innocence and shared humanity — are honourable and the production values high.
Times, Sunday Times
unite humanity
He said that his intention in working on the film was to unite humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Other applicants enthusiastically view this mission as a way to unite humanity for one extraordinary, transcendent cause.
Christianity Today
The incarnation unites humanity to divinity.
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whole of humanity
I can't get through a title sequence of his films without wanting to walk out on the whole of humanity.
The Sun
He believes our natural inclination to goodness can be globalised; in other words, the whole of humanity can be the group.
Times, Sunday Times
By the early 1960s, the world held its collective breath as the mightiest nations of the era threatened to destroy each other, and the whole of humanity in the process.
Times, Sunday Times
The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute.
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This way they forsake occupations where they could have made discoveries benefiting the whole of humanity.
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Translations:
Chinese: 人类
Japanese: 人類
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