mass noun
1
- the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively文化, 文明：
20th century popular culture
二十世纪的大众文化。
1.1
- a refined understanding or appreciation of this修养：
men of culture
有修养的人们。
1.2
- the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group（特定国家、民族或社会团体的）文化, 文明：
Afro-Caribbean culture
非洲-加勒比文化
count noun people from many different cultures来自不同文化背景的人。
1.3
- with modifier the attitudes and behaviour characteristic of a particular social group（特定社会团体特有的）态度和行为：
the emerging drug culture
正在出现的毒品文化。
2
- Biology the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc. in an artificial medium containing nutrients【生】（细菌, 细胞组织等的）培养：
the cells proliferate readily in culture.
这种细胞培养起来极易增殖。
2.1
- count noun a preparation of cells obtained in such a way培养物：
the bacterium was isolated in two blood cultures.
这种细菌是从两种血液培养物中分离出来的。
2.2
- the cultivation of plants（植物的）栽培：
this variety of lettuce is popular for its ease of culture.
这种莴苣因容易栽种而广受欢迎。
with obj.
- Biology maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth【生】培养（组织细胞, 细菌等）。
词源
Middle English (denoting a cultivated piece of land)： the noun from French culture or directly from Latin cultura 'growing, cultivation'; the verb from obsolete French culturer or medieval Latin culturare, both based on Latin colere 'tend, cultivate' （see CULTIVATE）. In late Middle English the sense was 'cultivation of the soil' and from this （early 16th cent.）, arose 'cultivation （of the mind, faculties, or manners）'; sense 1 dates from the early 19th cent.