having or showing compassion or benevolence 仁慈的,同情的 regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals. 保证人道对待动物的规章。 ■inflicting the minimum of pain 使少受痛苦的 humane methods of killing. 牲口麻醉屠宰法。
(formal)(of a branch of learning) intended to have a civilizing or refining effect on people (正式)(学科分支)人文的,使人文雅的,高尚的
派生 humanely adverb humaneness noun 语源
late Middle English: the earlier form of human, restricted to the senses above in the 18th cent