culture

詳細解釋：

cul.ture

n.（名詞）

The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
人類文化：通過社會傳導的行為方式、藝術、信仰、風俗以及人類工作和思想的所有其它產物的整體
These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population:
特種文化：被視為表現某一特定階段、階級、社會或種族的這些方式、特點和產物：
例句：
Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.
愛德華時代的文化；日本文化；貧困文化

These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression:
類別文化：被視為關於某一特定範疇，如某一領域、主題或表達方式的這些方式、特點或產物：
例句：
religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.
中世紀時期的宗教文化；音樂文化；口頭文化

Intellectual and artistic activity, and the works produced by it.
文藝作品，文藝活動：智力和藝術活動以及由此產生的作品

Development of the intellect through training or education.
教養：通過訓練或教育而實現的智力發展
Enlightenment resulting from such training or education.
陶冶，啟發：由這類訓練或教育而得到的啟迪
A high degree of taste and refinement formed by aesthetic and intellectual training.
修養，教養：通過美學和智力訓練而形成的高品味和文雅
Special training and development:
培訓：特殊的訓練和發展：
例句：
voice culture for singers and actors.
為歌手和演員準備的聲音練習

The cultivation of soil; tillage.
土地的耕作；耕種
The breeding of animals or growing of plants, especially to produce improved stock.
養殖：對動物的飼養或植物的種植，尤指為了產生改良品種
Biology
【生物學】
The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
培養：在經過特殊準備的營養培養基中的微生物、組織細胞或其它生物的培養
Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.
培養菌：該種生長物或群落，如培養菌
v.tr.（及物動詞）
cul.tured,cul.tur.ing,cul.tures
To cultivate.
栽培

To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
培養：在特殊製備的營養培養基中培養（微生物或其它生物）
To use (a substance) as a medium for culture:
用作培養基：用（某一物質）作營養培養基：
例句：
culture milk.
用牛奶作培養基

來源：
Middle English [cultivation]
中古英文 [培育]
from Old French
源自 古法文
from Latin cultôra
源自 拉丁語 cultôra
from cultus [past participle of] colere * see cultivate
源自 cultus [] colere的過去分詞 *參見 cultivate

<參考辭彙><同義詞>culture,cultivation,breeding,refinement,tasteThese nouns denote a personal quality resulting from the development of intellect, manners, and aesthetic appreciation.
這些名詞的意思是由智力、舉止以及美學欣賞的發展而形成的個人素質。
Culture implies enlightenment attained through close association with and appreciation of the highest level of civilization:
Culture 指的是通過與最高層次的文明接觸並欣賞而獲得的啟發：
例句：
.Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection. (Matthew Arnold).
.由此修養被恰當地描述為源於對完美的熱愛，而不是出於好奇心. （馬修·阿諾德）。

Cultivation suggests the process of self-improvement or self-development through which culture is acquired:
Cultivation 指的是修養得以獲取的自我改進或自我發展過程：
例句：
The books and paintings in her library reflect her considerable cultivation.
她的圖書館內的書和畫反映了她有相當程度的修養。

Breeding is revealed especially in good manners, poise, and sensitivity to the feelings of others:
Breeding 尤指在優雅的舉止、姿態以及對他人感覺的敏感中表現出來的：
例句：
.The test of a man`s or woman`s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. (George Bernard Shaw).
.對某一男人或女人教養的考驗是他們在爭吵中如何表現. （喬治·蕭伯納）。

Refinement stresses aversion to coarseness and implies a delicacy of feeling associated with fastidiousness:
Refinement 強調的是對粗魯的厭惡並且有與挑剔相關的感覺敏感之意：
例句：
.to seek elegance rather than luxury,and refinement rather than fashion. (William Henry Channing).
.尋求典雅而不是奢侈，尋求高雅而不是時尚. （威廉·亨利·查寧）。

Taste is the capacity for recognizing and appreciating what is fitting, proper, or aesthetically superior:
Taste 指的是辨別和鑑定合適的、適宜的、美學方面優良東西的能力：
例句：
.These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement.Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste. (Henry Adams).
.這些關於品味、感覺、遺傳的問題，無需得到解決。每個人都有各自衡量審美力的標準. （亨利·亞當斯）