首页英语词典bourgeoisbourgeois的意思

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

CET6+TEM4GRECET6低频词扩展词汇

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".

中文词源


bourgeois 中产阶级

bourg, 城镇,同burg. 指城市居住的人。

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]

双语例句


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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

3. He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
他有小资产阶级思想。

来自柯林斯例句

4. a traditional bourgeois family
一个传统的中产阶级家庭

来自《权威词典》

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.

来自《简明英汉词典》