bourgeois
英 ['bʊəʒwɑː]
美[,bʊr'ʒwɑ]
- 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
助记提示
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. 本义：body of freemen in a French town, the French middle class in the town.
5. In communist and socialist writing, as noun, "capitalist".
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".
中文词源
bourgeois 中产阶级
bourg, 城镇，同burg. 指城市居住的人。
英英释意
- 1. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
- 2. a member of the middle class
英文词源
- 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]
考试真题
- This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.
2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- a traditional bourgeois family
- 一个传统的中产阶级家庭
牛津词典
- bourgeois attitudes/tastes
- 世俗的态度 / 趣味
牛津词典
- They've become very bourgeois since they got married.
- 他们结婚后变得十分庸俗。
牛津词典
- bourgeois ideology
- 资产阶级意识形态
牛津词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...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
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The Apple Tree; dual personality; pity; chivalry; romantic; bourgeois.
- 《苹果树》; 两面性; 怜悯; 骑士精神; 浪漫化; 资产阶级.
期刊摘选
- Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.
- 他们的出发点是资产阶级专制主义, 在文化上就是资产阶级的文化专制主义.
《简明英汉词典》
- The French Revolution was inspired by the bourgeois.
- 法国革命受到中产阶级的鼓励.
辞典例句
- The director construed it as a radical attack on bourgeois values.
- 导演说它是对中产阶级价值观的激烈抨击.
期刊摘选
- He had a petty bourgeois streak in him.
- 他有点小资产阶级味道.
期刊摘选
- This novel by its humorous satire exaggerating technique, concentratedreflection bourgeois democracy false and deceit.
- 这篇小说以其幽默讽刺的夸张手法, 集中反映了资产阶级民主的虚伪性和欺骗性.
期刊摘选
- She is a bourgeois.
- 她是一个中产阶级女性.
期刊摘选
- This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism.
- ----这才是资产阶级的社会主义唯一认真说出的最后的话.
期刊摘选
- The rampant spread of bourgeois liberalization may have grave consequences.
- 资产阶级自由化泛滥,后果极其严重.
期刊摘选
- The French Revolution of 1789 heralded other bourgeois revolutions in the 19 th century.
- 1789年的法国革命是19世纪各国资产阶级革命的先声.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Britain in 1640 carried out a bourgeois revolution, after 40 years of back and forth.
- 1640年英国进行了资产阶级革命, 经过40多年的反反复复.
期刊摘选
- It gets all the time the assail of bourgeois scholar.
- 它一直受到资产阶级学者的抨击.
期刊摘选
- The struggle against bourgeois liberalization will last for at least 20 years.
- 反对资产阶级自由化至少还要搞二十年.
期刊摘选
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- Like the English political turmoil of the 17 th and 18 th centuries, the American revolution was bourgeois.
- 美国革命如同十七八世纪英国的政治动乱一样, 也是资产阶级性质的.
辞典例句
- Only one factor contradicted the cultivated bourgeois image.
- 唯有一处不符合一位优雅的资产阶级公子的形象.
辞典例句
- Naturally, we should adopt a scientific approach towards capitalism and towards bourgeois ideas.
- 对于资本主义、资产阶级思想,当然也要采取科学的态度.
期刊摘选
- The daily struggle of the proletariat sharpens the instability of bourgeois society.
- 工人阶级的日常斗争加剧了资产阶级社会的动荡.
期刊摘选
- She read good books and kept urging Yossarian not to be so bourgeois without the reading.
- 她爱读好书,而且经常劝尤索林不要象小市民一样不读书.
辞典例句
- a traditional bourgeois family
- 一个传统的中产阶级家庭
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》