英语单词 | bourgeois |
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英美音标 | 英 ['bʊəʒwɑː] 美 [ˌbʊr'ʒwɑː] |
中文释义 | n.中产阶级的人;资产阶级的人 adj.中产阶级的;追求名利的;资产阶级的 |
英语例句 | (1) The French Revolution was inspired by the bourgeois. (2) After he bought the new car, his friends started to call him a bourgeois. (3) She seemed to think every man I a suit was bourgeois, which was just inverted snobbery of the worst kind. (4) This is a typical bourgeois neighborhood. (5) His ex-wife was a very bourgeois person. (6) That was the way bourgeois society valued a man. (7) The bourgeois papers cried up the book for reasons of their own. |
中文例句 | (1) 法国革命受到中产阶级的鼓励。 (2) 他买了新车之后,朋友们开始称他为中产阶级。 (3) 她似乎认为穿西服的人都是资产阶级分子,这是最极端的反势利行为。 (4) 这是一个典型的中产阶级地区。 (5) 他的前妻是个很贪图享受的人。 (6) 这就是资产阶级社会评价人的方法。 (7) 资产阶级报纸对那本书大加赞扬,有它们自己的用意。 |
vocabulary简明 | The adjective bourgeois means relating to or typical of the middle class. If someone says, "Oh, how bourgeois!" it's probably an insult, meaning you're preoccupied with middle class small mindedness. |
vocabulary扩展 | As a noun, a bourgeois is a member of the middle class, originally a member of the middle class in France. The word was borrowed from French, from Old French burgeis "citizen of a town," from borc "town, village," from Latin burgus "fortress, castle." The derived word bourgeoisie "the middle class" is a later borrowing from French. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]传统中产阶级的(含贬义) If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people. [disapproval]
2 [ADJ 形容词](马克思主义者所指的)资本主义的,资产阶级的 Marxists use bourgeois when referring to the capitalist system and to the social class that owns most of the wealth in that system. [TECHNICAL 术语]
3 See also:petit bourgeois ; |
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