milieu

mi·lieu /ˈmiːljɜː $ miːˈljɜː, -ˈljuː/ noun (plural milieux /-ljɜːz, -ljɜː $ -ˈljɜːz, -ˈljuːz, -ˈljɜː, -ˈljuː/ or milieus) [countableC] formal

EFFECT/INFLUENCEthe things and people that surround you and influence the way you live and think 社会背景，周围环境

Proust’s work reflected his own social and cultural milieu.

普鲁斯特的作品反映了其所在的社会和文化背景。

She never felt happy in a student milieu.

在学生中间她从不觉得快乐。

Examples from the Corpus

milieu• Lester lives and works in an academic milieu.• Will seems to thrive in the hard-driving, mind-altering milieu of rock and soul.• Up until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, they tended to marry only those from their own class and milieu.• None of his eighteen novels takes place in a Catholic milieu.• Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.• And in fact, the isolation and weakness of the radical milieu put a premium upon commitment to an unqualified Utopia.• The Grotonian reflected not only the school itself but the social milieu that sent its sons there.• In such cases, neighbourhood rather than milieu may have brought people together.

Origin milieu

(1800-1900) French

mi·lieu noun

Chinese

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