bourgeois
英 [ˈbɔːʒ.wɑː]
美 [ˈbʊrʒ.wɑː]
- n. 资本家;九点活字;中产阶级的人;追求物质享受和社会地位者
- adj. 资产阶级的;中产阶级的;贪图享受的
- n. (Bourgeois)人名;(英、法、德)布儒瓦
1. *burg- / *bourg- 'protect, fortress' (whence also bury), a variant of *berg- (source of English barrow 'mound' and German berg 'mountain') and *borg- (source of English borrow).
2. *burg- / *bourg- meaning began to change from 'fortress', through 'fortified town', to simply 'town'.
3. *bourg- + ( -eis / -ois => -eois ) => bourgeois "town dweller" (as distinct from "peasant").
4. 本义:body of freemen in a French town, the French middle class in the town.
5. In communist and socialist writing, as noun, "capitalist".
bourgeois 中产阶级bourg, 城镇,同burg. 指城市居住的人。
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bourgeois: see borough
- 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]
- 1. 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。
- 2. He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas.
- 他认为他们可以用他们的资产阶级思想去影响别人。
- 3. He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
- 他有小资产阶级思想。
- 4. a traditional bourgeois family
- 一个传统的中产阶级家庭
- 5. The princess was ostracised for marrying a rich bourgeois.
- 公主因与一位富有的商人结婚而被逐出皇族.