英和和英

語源

From the earlier form cultural shock.

発音

• (General American) enPR: IPA: /ˈkʰʌlt͡ʃʰɚ ʃɑːk/

名詞

culture shock (countable and uncountable, plural culture shocks)

1. (anthropology, sociology) A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment.

   Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem.

   • 1982 December 4, Ilana Weinstock, “Letters From My Aunt”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 4:

     I went through another, reverse culture shock when I got back to Israel and the efort required to change from cherished and catered-to visitor to an ordinary working woman kept me away from my typewriter jor months.