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barbarian

/bahr-bair-ee-uhn/US // bɑrˈbɛər i ən //UK // (bɑːˈbɛərɪən) //

野蛮人,蛮夷,蛮子,蛮族

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person.
    • : a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine.
    • : a foreigner.
    • : a non-Greek.a person living outside, especially north of, the Roman Empire.a person not living in a Christian country or within a Christian civilization.
    • : a person of non-Italian origin.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : uncivilized; crude; savage.
    • : foreign; alien.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.crude, savage

Examples

  • It casts one’s opponent as an outsider, perhaps a barbarian, who must be scorned and defied, even if that results, as it did for Leonidas, in self-destruction.

  • Yet it won’t do to merely split a bunch of logs and leave them in a state of splintered entropy like some barbarian.

  • I wrote my first book listening to the soundtrack to the movie Conan the Barbarian on a loop.

  • Instead of thinking of a sharp distinction between "Roman" and "barbarian," we should think in terms of economic zones.

  • What can explain Morris's insistence in continuing to describe whole cultures and societies as "barbarian"?

  • Lastly, Levy objects to my occasional use, in the past, of the word "barbarian".

  • Morris has said that “the Arab world as it is today is barbarian.”

  • Christendom looked astounded upon the spectacle of a barbarian invasion bursting forth from the cellars and garrets of Paris.

  • The words, taken in a new acceptation, reveal the charming maladroitness of a northern barbarian kneeling before a Roman beauty.

  • But in each case the barbarian was not very far below the surface—any more than he is in an Englishman sometimes.

  • He turned angrily on the "barbarian" schools, that would sweep away the past, and create Humanity anew on some arbitrary plan.

  • Philip has been deemed a mere barbarian, whose victory was certain to be, and was, the death of Grecian liberty.