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bourgeois

/boor-zhwah, boor-zhwah, boo-zhwah; French boor-zhwa/US // bʊərˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊər ʒwɑ, ˈbu ʒwɑ; French burˈʒwa //UK // (ˈbʊəʒwɑː, bʊəˈʒwɑː) often derogatory //

资产阶级,资产阶级的,小资产阶级,中产阶级

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bour·geois.

    • : a member of the middle class.
    • : a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
    • : a shopkeeper or merchant.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
    • : conventional; middle-class.
    • : dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • This book is nearly encyclopedic in its accounting of the pleasures of modern bourgeois American life.

  • Bourgeois said that the actions taken to limit the reach of the term “Stop the Steal” in the election’s immediate aftermath were temporary.

  • Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne were considered formalistic and bourgeois artists.

  • At the same time, he was drawn to the work of future Nobel laureate André Gide, who rebelled against bourgeois conventions and wrote of sensual fulfillment.

  • Gurugram, a bustling tech and finance center on the outskirts of New Delhi, encapsulates the fast-paced capitalism and bourgeois aspirations of a new town.

  • Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants.

  • Many historians have leveled criticism at the Code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.

  • Diaspora always meant tragedy; you think you can be a good German bourgeois, but that way lie the death camps.

  • I confess to being surprised at the reaction to yesterday's article on the boring, bourgeois future of gay marriage.

  • That's right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality.

  • Despite his own grief, he is sorry for the young man; nor is he convinced in his shrewd bourgeois mind of the latter's guilt.

  • You will see a family of rich bourgeois enter, just in from the country, for the Montparnasse station is opposite.

  • To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.

  • It outrages me that even a bourgeois should so meanly misjudge the aspirations of an active revolutionist.

  • He was somewhat inclined to sybaritism; not quite emancipated from the tendencies of his bourgeois youth.