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society

/suh-sahy-i-tee/US // səˈsaɪ ɪ ti //UK // (səˈsaɪətɪ) //

社会,社团,协会,社群

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural so·ci·e·ties.

    • : an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
    • : a body of individuals living as members of a community; community.
    • : the body of human beings generally, associated or viewed as members of a community: the evolution of human society.
    • : a highly structured system of human organization for large-scale community living that normally furnishes protection, continuity, security, and a national identity for its members: American society.
    • : such a system characterized by its dominant economic class or form: middle-class society; industrial society.
    • : those with whom one has companionship.
    • : companionship; company: to enjoy the society of good friends.
    • : the social life of wealthy, prominent, or fashionable persons.
    • : the social class that comprises such persons.
    • : the condition of those living in companionship with others, or in a community, rather than in isolation.
    • : Biology. a closely integrated group of social organisms of the same species exhibiting division of labor.
    • : Ecclesiastical. ecclesiastical society.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of elegant society: a society photographer.

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Examples

  • Half a century later, it is clear that this narrow, stockholder-centered view of corporations has cost society severely.

  • Brazil’s Civil Rights Framework was society’s response to similar attempts by the government to censor the internet.

  • The goal is to create a society that treats everyone equally, and that gives everyone, including the most vulnerable members of our society, a fighting chance to succeed.

  • I think the most important thing is to consider what is good for the overall community, and we all want the overall society to recover as soon as possible.

  • We have gotten away from our source and this has caused our societies to be imbalanced.

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • “The institution of marraige [sic] is under attack in our society and it needs to be strengthened,” Bush wrote.

  • Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.

  • Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.

  • Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.

  • Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.

  • I haven't much time for seeing any one, except my patients, and the people I meet in society.

  • William has thus been happily able to report to the society the approaching conversion of M'Bongo and his imminent civilization.

  • The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.

  • He has told me that their society produced on him the effect of the cool hands of saints against his cheek.