Picture the thing that makes a person a person and not an animal or a machine: feeling pain, caring what happens to others, making art, getting things wrong. English packs that whole quality into one noun, and then uses it in three directions — everyone who has this quality (all people), the warmest part of it (kindness), and the school subjects that study what people have made with it (the humanities).
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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。
humanitynoun/hjuˈmænɪti/
- 1
Humankind; human beings as a group.
- Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
- At last the concourse is relatively clear of humanity and the task of clearing up can begin.
- 2
The human condition or nature.
- 3
The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
- Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!
- Killing Animals Humanely. Humanity requires that animals be killed in the quickest and least painful manner. The following circular has been sent by our American Humane Education Society very widely through the country.
- 4
Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.
- Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science.
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