英和和英

名詞

microcivilization (複数形 microcivilizations)

1. A tiny civilization.
   • 2007 November 4, Caroline Weber, “Tour de France”, New York Times:

     Yet according to Robb, who has written biographies of Victor Hugo, Honor de Balzac and Arthur Rimbaud, these microcivilizations were not formless planetoids waiting to be swallowed by a giant state, and their inhabitants didnt constitute a shapeless mass of human raw material, waiting to be processed by the huge, mutating machine of political interference and turned into the people conveniently known as the French.