culture
noun uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/ us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
(WAY OF LIFE)
B1 [ C or U ]文化（尤指某一群体在某一时期普遍的风俗习惯和信仰）
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time
youth/working-class culture 青年／工人阶级文化
She's studying modern Japanese language and culture. 她在研究现代日本语言和文化。
See also: subculture
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- American culture has been exported all over the world.
- She got some books out of the library and immersed herself in Jewish history and culture.
- It's a nostalgia trip back into the youth culture of the swinging 60s.
- Surely it is wrong to try to impose western culture on these people?
- Each culture had a special ritual to initiate boys into manhood.
(ART)
B1 [ U ]文化，文艺
music, art, theatre, literature, etc.
You won't find much culture in this sleepy little town, I'm afraid! 在这座死气沉沉的小镇里，恐怕你不会发现多少文化底蕴！
popular culture (= the books, music, etc. liked by most people) 通俗文化
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- I was suffering from an overdose of culture.
- She's the personification of culture and refinement.
- The advertising industry's use of classic songs is vandalism of popular culture, he said.
- There's not much here in the way of culture.
(GROWING)
[ C or U ] biology specialized培养出的细胞（或组织、器官、生物体）;培养，养殖
cells, tissues, organs, or organisms grown for scientific purposes, or the activity of breeding and keeping particular living things in order to get the substances they produce
culture
verb [ T ] biology specialized uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/ us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
栽培;培养;养殖
to breed and keep particular living things in order to get the substances they produce