humane

Compared meaning: caring about others' welfare, showing compassion (adjective).

比较义项：关心他人的福祉，富有同情心（形容词）。

• humanitarian

  Describes large-scale efforts or aid meant to improve people's welfare, especially during crises; typically modifies nouns like aid, crisis, or organization; formal, institutional tone.

  指旨在改善人们福祉的大规模行动或援助，尤见于危机时期；通常修饰援助、危机、组织等名词；语气正式，多用于机构语境。

  Humanitarian aid poured into the region after the flood.

  洪灾过后，人道主义援助源源不断地涌入该地区。

• humane 本词

  Describes kind, compassionate treatment that avoids causing pain or suffering, given to people or animals; used for individual actions or treatment methods, not large-scale aid.

  指对人或动物富有同情心、避免造成痛苦的善待方式；用于描述个人行为或具体的对待方法，而非大规模援助。

  The new law requires humane treatment of farm animals.

  新法律要求人道地对待农场动物。

Both words show care for others. Humanitarian describes large-scale efforts or aid to improve people's welfare, especially in a crisis, with a formal, institutional tone. Humane describes kind treatment of people or animals that avoids causing pain, used for individual actions rather than large-scale aid.

这两个词都表示对他人怀有同情与关怀，但侧重点和语域不同：humanitarian 多指为改善大众福祉而进行的大规模援助或行动，语气正式，常见于机构、危机语境；humane 则指对人或动物富有同情心、避免造成痛苦的具体对待方式，语气更个人化。两个词在本卡片对应的义项之外，都没有其他常见义项需要排除。