bourgeois
英 ['bʊəʒwɑː]
美 [,bʊr'ʒwɑ]
- n. 資本家；九點活字；中產階級的人；追求物質享受和社會地位者
- adj. 資產階級的；中產階級的；貪圖享受的
- n. (Bourgeois)人名；(英、法、德)布儒瓦
助記提示
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. 本義：body of freemen in a French town, the French middle class in the town.
5. In communist and socialist writing, as noun, "capitalist".
中文詞源
bourgeois 中產階級bourg, 城鎮，同burg. 指城市居住的人。
英文詞源
- bourgeois
- 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]
雙語例句
- 1. His privileged bourgeois family insisted on a good education.
- 他那優越的資產階級家庭堅持讓他接受良好的教育。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He thought they might infect others with their bourgeois ideas.
- 他認為他們可以用他們的資產階級思想去影響別人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
- 他有小資產階級思想。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. a traditional bourgeois family
- 一個傳統的中產階級家庭
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. The princess was ostracised for marrying a rich bourgeois.
- 公主因與一位富有的商人結婚而被逐出皇族.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》