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Civil Describe People Adj 形容词 N Things   [Adj

英语单词 civil
英美音标 英 ['sɪvl] 美 ['sɪvl]
中文释义 adj.公民的;文明的;国内的;民用的;民事的;【建】土木的
英语例句 (1) The law shall strictly protect civil rights.
(2) The presence of the army should act as a check on civil unrest.
(3) The America Civil War broke out during the presidency of Lincoln.
(4) I am working on a master's degree in civil architecture.
(5) It was a civil case so there was no question of him being sent to prison.
中文例句 (1) 法律应严格保护公民的权利。
(2) 军队的存在应能制止民间的动乱。
(3) 在林肯就职其间,美国爆发了内战。
(4) 我在攻读民用建筑专业的硕士学位。
(5) 这是一桩民事案件,因此他没有被送进监狱的可能。
vocabulary简明 Civil has several meanings. The simplest is cultured and polite, as in someone who is civilized. Civil can also describe things related to a community of people and their government, or a civilization.
vocabulary扩展 If you work for the post office, you're a civil servant. The Civil Rights movement focused on the notion that all American citizens were entitled to the same basic civil liberties. Rather than getting hysterical, someone getting divorced should follow their lawyer's advice and be civil toward their spouse when they face each other in civil court over the matter of who would get the banana plantation.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ 形容词]公民的;国民的;国内的 You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...civil unrest.

    国内骚乱

2
[ADJ 形容词]民用的;平民的;非军事的 You use civil to describe people or things in a country that are not connected with its armed forces.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • ...the US civil aviation industry.

    美国民用航空业

3
[ADJ 形容词]政府的;国家的;世俗的;非宗教的 You use civil to describe things that are connected with the state rather than with a religion.
  [ADJ n]
  • They were married on August 9 in a civil ceremony in Venice.

    他们于8月9号在威尼斯举行了世俗婚礼。

  • ...Jewish civil and religious law.

    犹太民法和宗教法

4
[ADJ 形容词](权利)公民的,公民应有的 You use civil to describe the rights that people have within a society.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...a United Nations covenant on civil and political rights.

    联合国公民和政治权利公约

5
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]彬彬有礼的;斯文的;客气的 Someone who is civil is polite in a formal way, but not particularly friendly.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • As visitors, the least we can do is be civil to the people in their own land.

    作为来访者,我们最起码能做到的就是对当地人要彬彬有礼。

civilly
  • The man nodded civilly to Sharpe, then consulted a notebook.

    那个人有礼貌地朝夏普点点头,然后翻查起一个笔记本来。

civility
  • ...civility to underlings.

    对下属的客气

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