n. 社区；[生态] 群落；共同体；团体
英 [kə'mjuːnɪtɪ] 美 [kə'mjʊnəti]
权威例句
- There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.
社区广播电台和商业广播电台一直是有区别的。
来自柯林斯例句 - News of 160 redundancies had sent tremors through the community.
将会裁员160人的消息在该团体中掀起了一阵骚动。
来自柯林斯例句 - He was now a teacher and a respectable member of the community.
他现在是一位教师，并且是社区内受人尊敬的一员。
来自柯林斯例句 - The community's links with Syria date back to biblical times.
这个团体与叙利亚的关系可以追溯到《圣经》时代。
来自柯林斯例句 - Why should a great community like a university be afraid of nihilism?
为什么像大学这样人才济济的社区要害怕虚无主义呢？
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
community 社区，社团
来自common, 普通，公共。
英文词源
community (n.)
late 14c., from Old French comunité "community, commonness, everybody" (Modern French communauté), from Latin communitatem (nominative communitas) "community, society, fellowship, friendly intercourse; courtesy, condescension, affability," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common (adj.)). Latin communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED].
An Old English word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," from mæne "common, public, general," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis. Community service as a criminal sentence is recorded from 1972, American English. Community college is recorded from 1959.
