- 1生活圈子；所處環境（偏書面；重的是周遭的人與風氣，不只是地方）
Milieu is the world around you that shapes how you live and think: the people, the habits, the money, the talk, the taste. It is not only the street you walk on. It is the circle you sit in. A painter’s milieu is other painters, galleries, and the ideas they share. A child’s milieu is family, school, and the neighbourhood. Writers and academics like this word; in everyday talk most people just say environment, background, or scene. It still feels a little French, and a little formal. People stretch it: ‘the political milieu of the 1960s’ means the whole mood and crowd of that time, not one room. It almost never means a single object. It means the middle you stand in.
組成Borrowed from French milieu. In French it is mi- (‘half / middle’, from Latin medius) + lieu (‘place’, from Latin locus): the picture is ‘the middle place’ — the world you sit in the middle of.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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。
milieunoun/ˈmiːljɜː/
- 1
An environment or setting; a medium; environs
- Australian cinema is a messy affair. It is a messiness not only in our ways of knowing, reading, consuming and producing films and the larger film-making milieu of which they are a part, but also a messiness among the films themselves […]
- In the electronic milieu, accuracy is accomplished by the technology, and the appropriate strategy for judgment is likely to entail ensuring coherence within and across electronic and naturalistic components of the ecology.
- 2
A social environment or setting.
- The distinction between the constituents in, and the conditions of, the integral life-career of person is well brought out in contrasting the attitudes of attention which persons normally develop with the milieux or social media which serve as the theater for their exercise. […] The assertive attitude of challenge finds its milieux in the domains of sport, art, exercise, industry, etc., to which the conception of gestalt may well be extended.
- Confronted by the multiplicity of the milieus that could influence curriculum activity, we need some way of deciding not only what kinds of milieus should claim our attention, but also what kinds of knowledge about them we should attend to.
- 3
A group of people with a common point of view; a social class or group.
- It's not easy to find someone whom one has mislaid for years in London, particularly if she belongs to the sort of milieu that Anna belonged to, but clearly the first thing to do is look in the telephone book.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。