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6 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。
civilizationnoun/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
- the Aztec civilization
- Western civilization
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Human society, particularly civil society.
- A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.
- I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
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The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
- The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
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The state or quality of being civilized.
- He was a man of great civilization.
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obsoleteThe act of rendering a criminal process civil.
civilizationname/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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Collectively, those people and places of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.
- Near-synonym: ecumene (archaic)
- Some of the tourists in the upcountry might have embarrassed themselves if they'd been capable of having any shame, whining that they couldn't wait to get back to civilization.
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。