| 单词 | cultured |
| 释义 | cultured (once / 1784 pages) adj A cultured person usually enjoys art, music, expensive restaurants, and other things considered fancy or educated. An old lady sipping tea with one pinkie sticking out, wearing a flowered hat, and listing to Brahms (the classical composer) would be many people's idea of someone cultured. A cultured person is also called refined, genteel, civilized, and cultivated. Cultured people have good manners and etiquette. However, being cultured is in the eye of the beholder, because there are so many different cultures in the world. It's difficult to be cultured in more than one culture. WORD FAMILYcultured: culturedly, uncultured+/acculturate: acculturated, acculturation, acculturative/acculturation: acculturational/counterculture: countercultures/cultural: culturally, multicultural, transcultural/culture: acculturate, counterculture, cultural, cultured, cultures, culturing, subculture/multicultural: multiculturalism/subculture: subcultures/uncultured: unculturedly USAGE EXAMPLESHull City did not play cultured football, and surely no-one would travel from London to Hull for the actual culture. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) In cultured cells, high levels of PPP2R3B expression slowed melanoma growth by interfering with DNA replication and slowing cell division. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) Cultured cells lacking these genes resisted HIV infection. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) adj marked by refinement in taste and manners cultured Bostonians cultured tastes Syn civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite refined (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel |
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