| 单词 | human zoo |
| 释义 | > as lemmashuman zoo human zoo n. (a) human society, or a social community, likened to a zoo, esp. with regard to its diversity, its confined cohabitation, or to behaviour considered animalistic; (also) humanity characterized as fit for scientific observation, anthropological study, etc. (see zoo n. 2a); (b) a place in which people, esp. from minority or non-European communities, are viewed or exhibited as a scientific or popular curiosity (chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1881 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 3 Dec. 1/4 I think I could find every type in Smokeville, and therefore I look upon it as a prodigious human Zoo. 1889 Proc. Ann. Congr. National Prison Assoc. U.S. 1887 269 Don't put him in a human ‘zoo’, to be gazed at by hungry people who come along to look at him. 1925 Jrnl. Appl. Sociol. Nov.–Dec. 126 The Chinatown, in some cities at least, is looked upon as a commercial asset—a sort of human zoo—which becomes a point of attraction for tourists. 1969 D. Morris Human Zoo 8 The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. 1978 A. Moore Cultural Anthropol. i. 9 Several Tupinambá had also been brought in full regalia and feathered headdress to the court of Catherine de Medici in Paris, where they were put on view in a human zoo. 2005 A. Biressi & H. Nunn Reality TV i. 15 Critics of reality TV have described these conditions as that of a ‘human zoo’ or a container under pressure which forces inmates ‘inwards’, making them deal with one another continually and under highly constrained conditions. 2014 A. Pernsteiner tr. P. Blanchard et al. Colonial Culture France since Revol. ii. 85 Representatives from sub-Saharan Africa were present... However, the exhibition had not yet become a ‘human zoo’, as would be the case ten years later at the Universal Exposition of 1878. < as lemmas |
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