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highbrow

/hahy-brou/US // ˈhaɪˌbraʊ //UK // (ˈhaɪˌbraʊ) often derogatory //

高层人士,高明的人,高贵的人,高明

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
    • : a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
    • : the crestfish.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also highbrowed . of, relating to, or characteristic of a highbrow.

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Examples

  • Perelman is certainly a benevolent angel in that collision between lowbrow and highbrow.

  • Ben Affleck was someone you were supposed to take seriously, someone whose work you were supposed to engage with sincerely, as highbrow art.

  • It doesn’t really bother me that My Unorthodox Life isn’t as serious or highbrow as many of its predecessors in ultra-Orthodox entertainment.

  • For better or worse, we’re watching a genre step off its highbrow pedestal—one that supported it through the making of many classic and literally world-changing films, but also helped to limit its audience.

  • Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”

  • Turns out highbrow culture can be found in the sunshine state.

  • It's no longer the highbrow mecca of fashion it once was, after all.

  • For highbrow patrons who are more familiar with Tolstoy than Ivan Drago, head to the Russian Tea Room.

  • It's where you rub shoulders with the big boys and enjoy highbrow ambiance.

  • "They recently let me join a highbrow mountain club; but when I start for the rocks I hesitate," Deering resumed.

  • They reckon they're highbrow frontier cavalry and I guess the trooper won't allow a girl held him up.

  • Weren't there to be any cakes and ale in New York simply because a highbrow happened to be mayor?

  • She had met him at some highbrow affair—it was a reception or some such social maelstrom—and, yes, his name was Bowles!

  • Well, symphony—more of the highbrow stuff, I guess you would say.