Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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n. 文化;[生物學]（微生物等的）培養;修養;養殖;
vt. 培植，培養;
?? cult耕種，培養+ure抽象名詞→[對心靈的]培養→人類文化
"the otherness of an alien culture"
異域文化的不同情調
近義：incubate, breed, cultivate, hatch, socialize, civilise
反義：philistinism, barbarism, roughness
n. 活動;活躍，敏捷;活動力;教育活動;
?? act行動，做+ivity狀態→活動
"The streets were noisy and full of activity."
街上熙熙攘攘，車水馬龍。
近義：motion, action, job, occupation, profession
反義：idleness, inaction, inertia, laziness, leisure, otioseness
n. 美好;美人;完美;突出的范例;
?? bell, beau 美好
"Her beauty appeared ageless."
她的美顯得經久不衰。
近義：loveliness, niceness, preciousness, prettiness, pulchritude, sightliness
反義：hideousness, plainness, unsightliness
adj. 仁愛的，慈善的;高尚的;
?? hum土,地+an屬于...的+e→有人情的，仁愛的
"Is it humane to kill animals for food?"
宰殺牲畜來吃合乎人道 嗎 ?
近義：humanitarian, philanthropist, benefactor, altruist, humanistic, kind
反義：heinous, horrible, inhuman, merciless, atrocious, outrageous
n. 感覺，知覺，情緒;感情;氣氛;
adj. 富有感情的，有感覺的;有同情心的，仁慈的;
v. 感覺;認為(feel的現在分詞);
?? feel感覺+ing行業,狀態，行為 →感情
"She has no feeling for the suffering of others."
她對別人的痛苦沒有同情心.
近義：impression, pathos, sensation, sentiment, thrill, idea
n. 信息，數據;通知;消息;知識;
?? in進+form形狀+ation名詞后綴→通知的東西→信息
"The information and advice are boiled down to bare essentials."
各種資料與建議縮短為極簡單的要點.
近義：notice, word, communication, info, intelligence, gen