a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities 共同生活的人群 ■a communal settlement in a communist country (共产主义国家的)公社
the smallest French territorial division for administrative purposes (法国的)最小地方行政区,市镇 ■a similar division elsewhere (其他地方的)最小地方行政区,市镇
(the Commune)the group which seized the municipal government of Paris in the French Revolution and played a leading part in the Reign of Terror until suppressed in 1794 (法国大革命时期夺取巴黎自治政权并领导了雅各宾专政,于1794年被镇压的)巴黎革命委员会,巴黎公社 ■(亦作 the Paris Commune)the municipal government organized on communalistic principles elected in Paris in 1871. It was soon brutally suppressed by government troops 巴黎公社(1871年在巴黎选举出的公社制地方自治政权,不久即被政府军队残酷镇压)
语源
late 17th cent. (in sense 2): from French, from medieval Latin communia, neuter plural of Latin communis (see common)
commune2 [kəˈmjuːn] verb
[no obj.](commune with)share one's intimate thoughts or feelings with (someone or something), especially when the exchange is on a spiritual level (精神上)沟通,推心置腹;神交;谈心 the purpose of praying is to commune with God. 祈祷的目的是与上帝神交。 ■feel in close spiritual contact with (精神上)与…很亲近(或亲密) he spent an hour communing with nature on the bank of a stream. 他在河岸边呆了一个小时,沉醉于大自然中。
语源
Middle English: from Old French comuner 'to share', from comun (see common)