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culture shock

文化冲击,文化休克,文化震撼,文化震荡

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.

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Examples

  • “That would be a culture shock for her, right after a full year of having all the attention,” says Aikey, who has vivid memories of the day her family bought Penny from a pet store in 2005, even though she was only in second grade.

  • Initially a blur of culture shock juxtaposed with her ongoing disenchantment, the journals track her obsession with her elusive, rakish colleague as well as her increasingly erratic state of mind.

  • Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.

  • I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.

  • A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.

  • Whether he gets his full due in popular culture remains to be seen.

  • If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

  • In Cuba its culture commenced in 1580, and from this and the other islands large quantities were shipped to Europe.

  • The culture of expression is a very different thing from the artful imitation of the signs of feeling and purpose.

  • Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.

  • Its culture however was looked upon with the same disapproval by Charles II.

  • It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.