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monogamous
Being married to one person or having one mate at a time.
🌱Geese, swans, and most other birds are monogamous and mate for life. 🌳American marriage is by law monogamous; people are permitted to have only one spouse （husband or wife） at a time. There are cultures with laws that permit marriage to more than one person at a time, or polygamy.Some Islamic countries permit polygamy, as do some African tribes. In this country the Mormons were polygamous until 1890, when they were forced to adopt monogamy by the unsympathetic federal government. monoculture 1、 The cultivation of a single crop to the exclusion of other uses of land.
2、 A culture dominated by a single element.
🌱Monoculture is practiced on a vast scale in the American Midwest, where nothing but corn can be seen in the fields for hundreds of square miles. 🌳The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-49, which led to the deaths of over a million people, resulted from the monoculture of potatoes, which were destroyed by a terrible blight, leaving farmers nothing else to eat. Almost every traditional farming society has practiced crop rotation, the planting of different crops on a given piece of land from year to year, so as to keep the soil from losing its quality. But in the modern world, monoculture has become the rule on the largest commercial farms, where the same crop can be planted year after year by means of the intensive use of fertilizers. Modern monoculture has produced huge crops; on a large scale, it permits great efficiency in planting, pest control, and harvesting. But many experts believe this all comes at a huge cost to the environment. monolithic 1、 Appearing to be a huge, featureless, often rigid whole.
2、 Made up of material with no joints or seams.
🌱The sheer monolithic rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan looks impossible to climb, but its cracks and seams are enough for experienced rock climbers. 🌳The -lith in monolith comes from the Greek lithos, "stone," so monolith in its original sense means a huge stone like those at Stonehenge. What's so impressive about monoliths is that they have no separate parts or pieces. To the lone individual, any huge institution or government bureaucracy can seem monolithic. But the truth may be different: The former U.S.S.R. once seemed monolithic and indestructible to the West, but in the 1990s it crumbled into a number of independent republics. monotheism The worship of a single god.
🌱Christian monotheism finally triumphed in the Roman Empire in A.D. 392, when the worship of pagan gods and goddesses was forbidden. 🌳The monotheism of the ancient Hebrews had to combat the polytheism （worship of many gods） of the surrounding peoples from the earliest times. As the Bible relates, several times in their history the Hebrews turned away from their monotheistic beliefs and accepted foreign gods, such as those imported by King Solomon. Each time their own God would punish them for their disloyalty, and the people of Israel would return to monotheism. Today Judaism shares its monotheism with two much larger religions, Christianity and Islam.
🌱Geese, swans, and most other birds are monogamous and mate for life. 🌳American marriage is by law monogamous; people are permitted to have only one spouse （husband or wife） at a time. There are cultures with laws that permit marriage to more than one person at a time, or polygamy.Some Islamic countries permit polygamy, as do some African tribes. In this country the Mormons were polygamous until 1890, when they were forced to adopt monogamy by the unsympathetic federal government. monoculture 1、 The cultivation of a single crop to the exclusion of other uses of land.
2、 A culture dominated by a single element.
🌱Monoculture is practiced on a vast scale in the American Midwest, where nothing but corn can be seen in the fields for hundreds of square miles. 🌳The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-49, which led to the deaths of over a million people, resulted from the monoculture of potatoes, which were destroyed by a terrible blight, leaving farmers nothing else to eat. Almost every traditional farming society has practiced crop rotation, the planting of different crops on a given piece of land from year to year, so as to keep the soil from losing its quality. But in the modern world, monoculture has become the rule on the largest commercial farms, where the same crop can be planted year after year by means of the intensive use of fertilizers. Modern monoculture has produced huge crops; on a large scale, it permits great efficiency in planting, pest control, and harvesting. But many experts believe this all comes at a huge cost to the environment. monolithic 1、 Appearing to be a huge, featureless, often rigid whole.
2、 Made up of material with no joints or seams.
🌱The sheer monolithic rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan looks impossible to climb, but its cracks and seams are enough for experienced rock climbers. 🌳The -lith in monolith comes from the Greek lithos, "stone," so monolith in its original sense means a huge stone like those at Stonehenge. What's so impressive about monoliths is that they have no separate parts or pieces. To the lone individual, any huge institution or government bureaucracy can seem monolithic. But the truth may be different: The former U.S.S.R. once seemed monolithic and indestructible to the West, but in the 1990s it crumbled into a number of independent republics. monotheism The worship of a single god.
🌱Christian monotheism finally triumphed in the Roman Empire in A.D. 392, when the worship of pagan gods and goddesses was forbidden. 🌳The monotheism of the ancient Hebrews had to combat the polytheism （worship of many gods） of the surrounding peoples from the earliest times. As the Bible relates, several times in their history the Hebrews turned away from their monotheistic beliefs and accepted foreign gods, such as those imported by King Solomon. Each time their own God would punish them for their disloyalty, and the people of Israel would return to monotheism. Today Judaism shares its monotheism with two much larger religions, Christianity and Islam.
MONO comes from the Greek monos, meaning "along" or "single." So a monorail is a railroad that has only one rail; a monocle is an old-fashioned eyeglass that a gentleman used to squeeze into his eye socket; a monotonous voice seems to have only one tone; and a monopoly puts all ownership of a type of product or service in the hands of a single company.🌸