| 单词 | transcultural |
| 释义 | transcultural (once / 844237 pages) adj You could describe a mother's love for her child as transcultural, since it exists in all human cultures. Something that's true across all cultures of people, no matter how different, can be described with the adjective transcultural. The key to the word's meaning is found in the prefix trans, or "across" in Latin. Sociologists, anthropologists, and historians are particularly interested in things that are transcultural, as they study the way humans interact in various societies, cultures, and time periods. WORD FAMILYcultural: culturally, multicultural, transcultural+/acculturate: acculturated, acculturation, acculturative/acculturation: acculturational/counterculture: countercultures/culture: acculturate, counterculture, cultural, cultured, cultures, culturing, subculture/cultured: culturedly, uncultured/multicultural: multiculturalism/subculture: subcultures/uncultured: unculturedly USAGE EXAMPLESThis story has elements of cosmopolitanism in that the world these characters inhabit is transnational and transcultural. The New Yorker(May 09, 2016) “I see transcultural symbolic possibilities all the time,” Gray said. Washington Times(Mar 13, 2016) That same transcultural impulse now informs the Roma church’s outreach to Muslim refugees and migrants. Wall Street Journal(Oct 22, 2015) adj extending through all human cultures a transcultural ideal of freedom embracing all the peoples of the world |
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