civilisation 是 civilization 的英式拼法，意思一樣。英國的考試和書多半用這個拼法。
civilisation · civilization
核心畫面
Picture a lot of people living together in one place over a long time, and the things that grow out of that: streets and buildings, writing, laws, ways of doing things that everyone knows. Not just a crowd — a crowd that has become organised, and has left something behind.
可以想成一大群人在同一個地方長時間住在一起之後，慢慢長出來的那一整套東西：街道和建築、文字、法律、大家心照不宣的做事…更多收起
可以想成一大群人在同一個地方長時間住在一起之後，慢慢長出來的那一整套東西：街道和建築、文字、法律、大家心照不宣的做事方式。重點不只是「人多」，而是這群人已經組織起來，並且留下了痕跡。三個意思其實是同一個畫面拉遠或拉近：拉近看是某一個古代社會，拉遠看是全人類，走進去看則是有熱水和店家的城鎮。原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
civilisationnoun/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Commonwealth spelling of civilization.
- From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
- It is also there in Miller’s worldview, which has long promoted racist fears of demographic replacement of white people and civilisation decline.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。