单词 | bourgeois |
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音标 | [bə'dʒɔis] |
解释 | a.中产阶级的;自私拜物的 |
红宝书 | 无 |
字源 | bourgeois (adj.) 1560s, "of the French middle class," from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois "town dweller" (see bourgeoisie). Sense of "socially or aesthetically conventional" is from 1764; in communist and socialist writing, as a noun, "a capitalist" (1883).It is better to be a good ordinary bourgeois than a bad ordinary bohemian. [Aldous Huxley, 1930] |
不择手段背单词 | n. (渴求名利、社会地位和物质财富的, 平庸的)中产阶级 【记】源于: bourg(n 中世纪靠近城堡的村庄)那里盛产hamburg(n 汉堡包), 被认为是中产阶级的食品. |
趣味全助记 | 无 |
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