| 释义 |
ethose‧thos /ˈiːθɒs $ ˈiːθɑːs/ noun [singular]   ethosOrigin: 1800-1900 Greek ‘custom, character’ - In the late '60s, thousands of people lived according to an ethos of sharing and caring.
- Any traces have been obliterated by the advance of the ethos that we have inherited from our Cro-Magnon ancestors.
- It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution's regulations, resources and ethos.
- The dominant male ethos even leads to an unspoken complicity between cop and criminal.
- There is now a growing conviction that the religious sources for a new public ethos have to be mobilised again.
- Western art reflected the ethos of its society as surely as Soviet art.
- What should remain constant is ethos.
ADJECTIVE► public· There is now a growing conviction that the religious sources for a new public ethos have to be mobilised again. ► whole· Although the new forms of service are not necessarily responsible, it is felt that the whole ethos of worship has changed.· Rather it was the whole ethos of the monarchy which was felt to be dowdy and second-rate. NOUN► school· Do schools pay sufficient attention to the match between the taught health education curriculum and the hidden curriculum of the school ethos?· A prime source of violence resides in the elitist educational strategies that are firmly rooted in the school ethos.· The school ethos was mainly concerned with turning out well-educated, potential wives of professional able-bodied men.· It is by acts of thoughtfulness that the school ethos is reinforced. the set of ideas and moral attitudes that are typical of a particular group:  a community in which people lived according to an ethos of sharing and caring |