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Counterculture is the art, clothes, music, beliefs, and daily habits of people who push against what most of society calls normal. It is not just “being different.” It is a whole way of living that says the usual way is wrong, empty, or unfair.
Counterculture反文化 is指的是 people who push against what most of society calls normal那些反抗大多數社會認定「正常」的人 the art, clothes, music, beliefs, and daily habits of的藝術、穿著、音樂、信念,還有日常生活習慣 It is not just "being different."這不只是「跟別人不一樣」。 It is a whole way of living這是一整套生活方式, that says the usual way is wrong, empty, or unfair主張一般的做法是錯的、空洞的,或不公平的
People often use it for the 1960s — long hair, protest, new music — but the word still works for later groups who refuse the mainstream. It is a noun for the scene as a whole, not for one song or one T-shirt.
People often use it for the 1960s人們常常拿它來講1960年代—— long hair, protest, new music長髮、抗議、新音樂—— but the word still works for later groups who refuse the mainstream但這個字仍然適用於後來拒絕主流的族群 It is a noun for the scene as a whole這是一個指整個現象的名詞, not for one song or one T-shirt不是指一首歌或一件T恤
Though actually, newspapers stretch it: they may call any youth fashion “counterculture” even when it is just a style, not a fight with society. The stronger use keeps that against-the-usual feeling.
Though actually不過其實, newspapers stretch it報紙會把這個字用得更寬: they may call any youth fashion "counterculture"他們也可能把任何年輕人的流行叫做「反文化」, even when it is just a style, not a fight with society就算只是個風格,不是在對抗社會 The stronger use比較強的用法, keeps that against-the-usual feeling保留了那種「對抗常規」的感覺
組成From counter- (against) + culture. Culture here came from French culture, from Latin cultura.
同家族的字
- culturethe usual ways and arts that this stands against
- subcultureshares culture; a smaller group inside society, not always against it
原始詞典資料2 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。
counterculturenoun/ˈkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˌkʌl.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
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Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
- I suspect that just about everything we still consider valuable and interesting from the Victorian decades will turn out to have belonged to the Victorian counterculture.
- Seneca's literary contemporary, Petronius, reflected the " seamy " side of city life by representing Roman "counterculture" in his racy and imaginative farce the Satyricon.
counterculturename/ˈkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˌkʌl.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
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A cultural movement most prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, associated with peace, free love and opposition to commercialism; the hippie movement.
- The concert was a cultural happening for members of the counterculture in the St. Louis area.
- The sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the American family: increasing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, and single-parent families. The glorification of recreational drug use, from which the wealthy and middle class have only recently begun to recoil, has contributed to the emergence of a permanent urban underclass. The self-indulgent notions of no-fault living, the cult of victimization, the futility of work, and the inherent injustice of American society, which the counterculture promoted, have corroded the respect for merit and personal striving, which are the human virtues surest to help individuals grow, develop moral codes, and achieve success.
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。