- 1人道的、仁慈的（不殘忍、盡量減少痛苦）。勿與 human「人類的」混為一談。
Humane means you treat people or animals kindly: you do not hurt them if you can help it, and you try to keep their pain small. A humane shelter looks after stray dogs well. A humane law tries to stop cruel punishment. It sounds a little formal — you meet it in news, in animal-care talk, and in arguments about right and wrong. It looks like human, and they truly are family: both come from Latin humanus, from homo, 'man / a human being.' But they are not the same word. Human means of people. Humane means kind, not cruel — the better side of being human. Though actually, people sometimes stretch humane to mean civilised or soft, and that can start a fight: what one person calls humane, another calls too weak.
From the word’s history
From Middle English humain, from Old French humain, from Latin hūmānus, from homō 'man'.
經古法文來自拉丁文 hūmānus，源自 homō「人」。
組成From Latin humanus (of a human), from homo (man). English later kept human for of people and humane for kind. Old English guma (man) is a distant cousin — it survives inside bridegroom.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
humaneadj/hjuːˈmeɪn/
- 1
Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
- It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
- As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
- 2
Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
- many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.
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