| 词汇 | lowbrow |
| 释义 | lowbrow adjective mainly disapprovinguk /ˈləʊ.braʊ/ us /ˈloʊ.braʊ/ (of entertainment) not complicated or demanding much intelligence to be understood: （娱乐消遣）肤浅的，庸俗的 He regards the sort of books I read as very lowbrow.他认为我看的书太庸俗。 I like a lowbrow action movie once in a while.偶尔我喜欢看些通俗的动作片。 Compare highbrowadjectivemainly disapproving middlebrowadjectivemainly disapproving Art & culture aesthetic Afrocentric Afrofuturism anti-cultural art gallery composition compositional compositionally cultural cultural capital cultural theorist cultural theory culturally folk art highbrow philistine pop culture popular culture soul soul food lowbrow | American Dictionarylowbrow adjective disapprovingus/ˈloʊˌbrɑʊ/ (of literature, art, music, movies, or plays) not serious and intended for people who do not know much about these forms of art, or (of people) not intelligent and not knowing a lot about such things: lowbrow tastes lowbrow readers Examples of lowbrowlowbrow At this point, all too obviously, sentimentalism moved from high- to middlebrow, and from there to lowbrow in the twentieth century. On the one hand, for "highbrow" research or methods to succeed, to have a utility value, these techniques have to find implementation in "lowbrow" commercial software in use in practice. Warren's stylistic choices compounded his offence by looking to a sentimental, lowbrow literature and gesturing toward the necessarily subjective stance of even the physician. Compare, for example, "sophisticated," which would have adequately poked fun at such lowbrow taste by playing on the common equation of sophistication with something positive to which most would aspire. They would like all the arts to resemble rock music, relentlessly lowbrow, vastly profitable and nakedly populist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not an issue of highbrow against lowbrow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was doing my ironing the other day and was listening to a lowbrow programme on the wireless. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not agree with the suggestion that the exhibitions, or the stage plays, may be highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow, or any other brow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will there be lowbrow variety? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But what did the lowbrows think? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The authors describe the piece as combining highbrow concept and lowbrow humour. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The students score two points if they get the highbrow question right or one point if they get the lowbrow question right. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was a term of division and derision, and became shorthand for a population considered lowbrow, coarse and lacking education and cultural refinement. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Criticism centred on the informal style of presentation which was perceived by some commentators to be too lowbrow for a royal occasion. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Designed as centers for entertainment and moral education for the working class ("lowbrow"), the museums were distinctly different from upper-middle class' cultural events ("highbrow"). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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