human beings

音标
英 /ˈhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋz/，美 /ˈhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋz/

词性与释义
名词，意为“人类”，泛指作为物种的人类整体，强调其作为有思想、情感和意识的生命体特征 。

用法说明

单复数形式

单数需加冠词：a human being（一个人），表示单个个体 。

复数形式 human beings 用于泛指人类群体，如：“Human beings are capable of both great kindness and terrible cruelty.”（人类既能表现出极大的善良，也能做出可怕的残忍行为）。

语境差异

较正式，常用于哲学、社会学、文学等领域，强调人类的独特性和复杂性，如讨论道德、情感或文明时 。

与 humans 相比，human beings 更突出人文属性；与 humanity 相比，前者侧重具体群体，后者可延伸至“人性、人道”等抽象概念 。

例句

No human being can be free from mistakes.（是人总要犯错误。）

As human beings, we have a responsibility to care for our planet.（作为人类，我们有责任照顾我们的地球。）

They are also sometimes called "the Big Three," so fundamental and important are these three worlds in which human beings are always operating.（它们又被叫做“三大理论”。这三个世界是如此重要和基础，人类就在其中活动。）

The thought that I might lose it had never remotely occurred to me. And I could not conceive that multitudes of human beings would ever willingly live without it.（那种我或许会失去个人自由的想法从未出现在我的脑海中，我也无法想象会有众人愿意过着没有自由的生活。）

First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort.（首先，我们知道所有人类都拥有某种语言。）

Put simply, human beings were getting smarter.（简而言之，人类正变得越来越聪明。）

This "De" is also the separation of human beings' civilization and savage and is the perfect mark of the combination between human beings and the nature.（此一“德”字更是人类文明与野蛮的区分点，是人类与自然结合的完美标志。）

The target of civilization education is searching the idea world and characters, improve human beings' worth, perfect every people.（追求理想世界和理想人格，发扬人的价值，追求人自身的完善，是人文教育的目的。）

We human beings should protect endangered species.（我们人类应该保护濒危物种。）

The formation of circulating antibody in the splenectomized human being following intravenous injection of heterologous erythrocytes.（脾切除者静脉注射异种红细胞后循环抗体的形成。）

短语搭配

human beings' civilization 人类文明

the rights of human beings 人权

survival of human beings 人类生存

从哲学思辨到日常责任，human beings 这个词汇始终提醒着我们：作为兼具理性与情感的物种，人类的伟大与脆弱始终并存。