| 词汇 | plebeian |
| 释义 | plebeian adjective formaldisapprovinguk /pləˈbiː.ən/ us /pləˈbiː.ən/ belonging to a low social class: 平民的；粗俗的 He used to make fun of what he called her "plebeian origins".他过去常拿她所谓的“平民出身”来开玩笑。 He retained a plebeian taste in food and drink.他在吃喝上品位仍然很低俗。 Synonyms common lower classold-fashioned vulgardisapproving Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class Examples of plebeianplebeian The play concludes with a crowd of angry plebeians tearing him to pieces. This attention to the local, the contextual and the plebeian in understanding the outbreak of war has to be applauded. As a social practice it therefore embodied wider community beliefs regarding the defence of plebeian livelihoods and identities. The musician cannot conceive harmony in the midst of the noisy plebeians, and clearly regards his sounds as more valuable than those around him. Much of the evidence of cohabitation dates from the nineteenth century, and cannot automatically be interpreted as the survival of earlier plebeian practices. From 1640, events in the county had been marked by an active popular involvement that could easily be reframed as plebeian disorder. An important strand is whether political activists integrated their plebeian rank and file into new party structures, thus neutralizing threats to status quo. Originally it was a plebeian rural and urban diversion and was popularised and commercialised during the middle and later decades of the twentieth century. Politicians had to consider the opinions of plebeian workers when they appealed to their constituencies. Ministers were persuaded that something decisive needed to be done about the radical press, to which they attributed the alarming growth of plebeian disaffection. Inflammatory language that was obviously intended for a plebeian audience was likely to draw the attention of the crown lawyers. It could also help to overcome the potential problem of plebeian manipulation of the masses. Negative reactions to modernism are better explained as a response conditioned by a literary discourse in which plebeian autodidacts as well as middle-class readers participated. This working bricolage provides a many-layered testament to the complexities of plebeian masculinities and the social and ideological dynamics of both progressive politics and literary sub-cultures. Libertine pleasures of metropolitan life and the increasing flexibility of plebeian morals could spark flares of jealousy and fanned fears of abandonment. 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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