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词汇 uncivilized
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Definition of uncivilized in English:

uncivilized

(British uncivilised)
adjectiveʌnˈsɪvɪlʌɪzdˌənˈsɪvəˌlaɪzd
  • 1(of a place or people) not socially, culturally, or morally advanced.

    (地方,人)未开化的,不文明的

    they pitied us for leaving the Smoke for such uncivilized remoteness
    children are basically uncivilized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Still symbolic of uncivilized nature, wild game was transformed from an obstacle into a valuable resource in need of protection.
    • The Orient is associated with an uncivilized nature, the Westerner with a proprietary consumption of it.
    • ‘That is the kind of thinking that would be compatible with a very uncivilized world,’ he added.
    • For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
    • But I think it is a necessary confrontation, a final break with the wild and uncivilized world from which Enkidu derives.
    • Surely, human life could not have started in those uncivilized places.
    • The French don't like the Irish; they think they're wild, barbaric, and terribly uncivilized.
    • It is about giving assent, support and legitimacy at a transnational level to a most uncivilised field of research.
    • I believe that certain aspects of other cultures are primitive and uncivilized.
    • Isn't it clear to the world by now, that the U.S. represents a different mindset than much of the uncivilized world?
    • The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
    • Well, of course it couldn't be the uncivilized place that some people say it is.
    • They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world.
    • First most of them were imported from among the interior peoples, untouched by the Swahili culture, peoples contemptuously referred to as shenzi or uncivilized barbarians by the coastal peoples.
    • Many American middle-class women, for example, expressed their revulsion at what they saw as the dirty and uncivilized nature of Irish women.
    • She does not view the tribal people as uncivilized or primitive, but merely very different from the rest of the world.
    • Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
    • We always picnic in the room so it looks as if we're provisioned for an excursion into the uncivilized wilderness.
    • As cultured as they are supposed to be their village is uncivilized.
    • In the aftermath of the American elections the chattering classes in Britain have portrayed the moral majority in America as the peculiar aberration of a raw, uncivilised culture.
    Synonyms
    uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, vulgar, philistine, uneducated, uncultured, uncultivated, benighted, unsophisticated, unrefined, unpolished, ill-bred, ill-mannered, thuggish, loutish
    barbaric, barbarian, barbarous, primitive, savage, wild, brutish, Neanderthal, in a state of nature
    informal yobbish, slobbish
    archaic rude
    1. 1.1 Impolite; bad-mannered.
      无礼的;粗鲁的
      forgive me for my apparent rudeness, it was most uncivilized of me
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I wanted to simply disappear; I must have sounded so graceless and uncivilized.
      • Please don't be as uncivilized, thoughtless, and cruel as the monsters who committed these senseless acts.
      • To rush through a meal is thought to be uncivilized behavior.
      • This is to counter the dumb who don't think they are dumb, and are at the same time crude, uncivilised and unreasonable.
      • High, bright windows shone at us when children; told us of the happy life of music in those houses where the girls stepped daintily and smiled at us, a joke we thought uncivilised and cruel.
      • He characterized the action as ‘brazen, arrogant, uncivilized, and insensitive.’
      • Apparently bloggers really are considered the barbarians at the gates - unrefined, undisciplined and uncivilized.
      • Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
      • If the boys sometimes cross their limit, the whole blame goes these uncultured/uncivilised boys, and the poor girl is just the victim.
      • Last week, it emerged that even those trusted with getting children safely across roads outside school are bearing the brunt of increased aggression and uncivilised road behaviour by some motorists.
      • She may be unladylike, but she certainly was not uncivilized!

Definition of uncivilized in US English:

uncivilized

(British uncivilised)
adjectiveˌənˈsivəˌlīzdˌənˈsɪvəˌlaɪzd
  • 1(of a place or people) not considered to be socially, culturally, or morally advanced.

    (地方,人)未开化的,不文明的

    they pitied us for leaving the Smoke for such uncivilized remoteness
    children are basically uncivilized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘That is the kind of thinking that would be compatible with a very uncivilized world,’ he added.
    • First most of them were imported from among the interior peoples, untouched by the Swahili culture, peoples contemptuously referred to as shenzi or uncivilized barbarians by the coastal peoples.
    • Surely, human life could not have started in those uncivilized places.
    • It is about giving assent, support and legitimacy at a transnational level to a most uncivilised field of research.
    • Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
    • In the aftermath of the American elections the chattering classes in Britain have portrayed the moral majority in America as the peculiar aberration of a raw, uncivilised culture.
    • For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
    • We always picnic in the room so it looks as if we're provisioned for an excursion into the uncivilized wilderness.
    • The French don't like the Irish; they think they're wild, barbaric, and terribly uncivilized.
    • Many American middle-class women, for example, expressed their revulsion at what they saw as the dirty and uncivilized nature of Irish women.
    • Still symbolic of uncivilized nature, wild game was transformed from an obstacle into a valuable resource in need of protection.
    • As cultured as they are supposed to be their village is uncivilized.
    • The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
    • Isn't it clear to the world by now, that the U.S. represents a different mindset than much of the uncivilized world?
    • Well, of course it couldn't be the uncivilized place that some people say it is.
    • The Orient is associated with an uncivilized nature, the Westerner with a proprietary consumption of it.
    • I believe that certain aspects of other cultures are primitive and uncivilized.
    • But I think it is a necessary confrontation, a final break with the wild and uncivilized world from which Enkidu derives.
    • They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world.
    • She does not view the tribal people as uncivilized or primitive, but merely very different from the rest of the world.
    Synonyms
    uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, vulgar, philistine, uneducated, uncultured, uncultivated, benighted, unsophisticated, unrefined, unpolished, ill-bred, ill-mannered, thuggish, loutish
    1. 1.1 Impolite; bad-mannered.
      无礼的;粗鲁的
      forgive me for my apparent rudeness, it was most uncivilized of me
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She may be unladylike, but she certainly was not uncivilized!
      • To rush through a meal is thought to be uncivilized behavior.
      • Please don't be as uncivilized, thoughtless, and cruel as the monsters who committed these senseless acts.
      • Apparently bloggers really are considered the barbarians at the gates - unrefined, undisciplined and uncivilized.
      • Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
      • This is to counter the dumb who don't think they are dumb, and are at the same time crude, uncivilised and unreasonable.
      • If the boys sometimes cross their limit, the whole blame goes these uncultured/uncivilised boys, and the poor girl is just the victim.
      • Last week, it emerged that even those trusted with getting children safely across roads outside school are bearing the brunt of increased aggression and uncivilised road behaviour by some motorists.
      • He characterized the action as ‘brazen, arrogant, uncivilized, and insensitive.’
      • High, bright windows shone at us when children; told us of the happy life of music in those houses where the girls stepped daintily and smiled at us, a joke we thought uncivilised and cruel.
      • I wanted to simply disappear; I must have sounded so graceless and uncivilized.
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