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Bourgeois Middle Typical Class French Society Member Word

英语单词 bourgeois
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
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[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]
  • He's accusing them of having a bourgeois and limited vision.

    他指责他们像中产阶级一样目光狭隘。

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[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]
  • ...the modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society...

    从封建社会的废墟上发展起来的现代资本主义社会

  • His privileged bourgeois family insisted on a good education.

    他那优越的资产阶级家庭坚持让他接受良好的教育。

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See also:
petit bourgeois

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