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/ˌmænˈkaɪnd/
All human beings, thought of together as one single group — every person on Earth, plus the people who lived long before us and the ones who will come after.
人類
核心畫面
All human beings taken as one single thing — not this person or that group, but the whole species across all time, seen from far enough away that individual people disappear.
可以想成：把鏡頭一直往後拉，拉到看不見個別的臉、看不見國家和年代，只剩下「人這個物種」還在畫面裡——古早的人、現在的…更多收起
可以想成：把鏡頭一直往後拉，拉到看不見個別的臉、看不見國家和年代，只剩下「人這個物種」還在畫面裡——古早的人、現在的人、以後會出生的人，全被算進同一團。mankind 就是站在那個距離講話的字，所以它常出現在講歷史、講太空、講疾病或戰爭這種橫跨整個人類的場合，像 a giant leap for mankind；拿來講一小群人會顯得很奇怪。原始詞典資料4 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。
Mankindname
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The 114th sura (chapter) of the Quran
mankindnoun/mænˈkaɪnd/
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The human race in its entirety.
- One small step for a man can be a giant leap for mankind.
- The examples of all ages shew us that mankind in general desire power only to do harm, and, when they obtain it, use it for no other purpose.
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Men collectively, as opposed to all women.
- Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- “[...] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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obsoleteHuman feelings; humanity.
- And they are two strong ties upon mankind. Justice is the virtue that innocence rejoiċeth in
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。