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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.
Milieu ismilieu指的是 the world around you that shapes how you live and think圍繞著你、塑造你生活與想法的那個世界：the people, the habits, the money, the talk, the taste人、習慣、金錢、談話方式、品味。It is not only它不只是 the street you walk on你走的那條街。It is the circle you sit in而是你身處的那個圈子。
A painter’s milieu is other painters, galleries, and the ideas they share. A child’s milieu is family, school, and the neighbourhood.
A painter's milieu is一個畫家的milieu是 other painters, galleries, and the ideas they share其他畫家、畫廊，還有他們共同分享的想法。A child's milieu is一個孩子的milieu是 family, school, and the neighbourhood家庭、學校，和社區。
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.
Writers and academics like this word作家和學者喜歡用這個字；in everyday talk日常說話時 most people just say大多數人就直接說 environment, background, or sceneenvironment（環境）、background（背景），或scene（圈子）。It still feels a little French, and a little formal它聽起來還是有點法文味，也有點正式。
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.
People stretch it人們也會延伸這個用法：'the political milieu of the 1960s''the political milieu of the 1960s' means指的是 the whole mood and crowd of that time那個年代整體的氛圍和人群，not one room不是指某一個房間。It almost never means a single object它幾乎不會指單一個物件。It means the middle you stand in它指的是你所站立其中的那個中心。
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，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。
milieunoun/ˈmiːljɜː/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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。