词汇 | literati |
释义 | literati noun[ plural ] uk /ˌlɪt.ərˈɑː.tiː/ us /ˌlɪt̬.əˈrɑː.t̬iː/ people with a good education who know a lot about literature: 文人,学士 Her novels are popular with university literati, but they have failed to attract a wider audience.她的小说受到大学里文人学者的欢迎,但对更广泛的读者却没有什么吸引力。 Compare glitterati Experts and specialists a mine of informationidiom academician artist authority boffin child prodigy doyenne know something inside outidiom lapidary Latin Americanist maven savant semiotician skilled smart money sports scientist whizz wonder wonderkid wunderkind Examples of literatiliterati Significant social parameters influencing the literati were changing criteria and indices of class, status, and titles reflecting social, and not political history. Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing. In the past it was followed by the emperor and the nobility, by the rich and by intellectuals such as the literati. The grotteschi were often derided by contemporaries (typically the literati, for the style was highly popular with the public) as vulgar buffoons. A methodological approach involving perspectives of social and intellectual history26 is used to study interconnections between texts, and among the literati. He capitalized on the gains accruing from the credibility of the literati and used this symbolic capital to underpin his religious claims. Rather, they arose from a common circuit of discourse, in which elite literati, popular journalists and their readers all informed one another. The knowledge of how to appreciate painting and calligraphy was no longer the privilege of the literati. Like snuff bottles, the opium pipes fascinated and inspired generations of literati and officials. To most of the literati, however, the world map was simply an esoteric object that aroused their curiosity. Gifts of books were of limited use, even for the sufficiently high-ranking officials and well-connected literati involved in this practice. Scattered records by literati provided more confirmatory evidence. The literati, more specifically, the middle class was convinced of its superiority as a conscious social and intellectual group. More patronage and profile meant more learning, more students, and ultimately more literati and scholar-officials. Because political power was controlled by the landed literati, it is natural that taxation was designed to reinforce this belief in social order. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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