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humankind

/hyoo-muhn-kahynd, -kahynd or, often, yoo-/US // ˈhyu mənˌkaɪnd, -ˈkaɪnd or, often, ˈyu- //UK // (ˌhjuːmənˈkaɪnd) //

人类,人類,人体,人類的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : human beings collectively; the human race.

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Examples

  • Sent ahead to create conditions favorable for humankind, these robots will need to be tough, adaptable and recyclable if they’re to survive within the inhospitable cosmic climates that await them.

  • Instead, he said that while Mars exploration is a worthwhile effort to keep humankind alive, life would be hard.

  • Indeed, science-fiction tales like The War of the Worlds depict humankind acting as one against a common enemy.

  • Indeed, if you watch a short trailer Hitchcock produced to advertise his film, you might start to think maybe humankind was asking for it.

  • It is the largest product launch in the history of humankind.

  • Humankind has a really bad track record with those who are regarded as “other” by the majority.

  • According to Genesis, when God created humanity he created “humankind in his image” and “male and female he created them.”

  • The state of the nation and the state of humankind may depend on it.

  • The outrage of a meaningless cosmos impels all of humankind to struggle against it.

  • “The only solidarity that is acceptable is solidarity with humankind,” one academic colleague wrote.

  • The sense of the desertion by humankind, by God and mercy and rationality swept through me and overwhelmed my inner self.

  • They do not think of humankind as being above and separate from all other creatures, but as fellow creatures in a world of life.

  • More than once that summer he went alone into the wilderness to find his balance and to get away entirely from humankind.

  • Even cubs with no possible experience of humankind are terrified by the scent of men.

  • With a faint sensation of gladness, Laura beheld traces of humankind.