词汇 | bluestocking |
释义 | bluestocking noun[ C ] old-fashioneduk /ˈbluːˌstɒk.ɪŋ/ us /ˈbluːˌstɑː.kɪŋ/ an intelligent and well-educated woman who spends most of her time studying and is therefore not approved of by some men(不招某些男人喜欢的)女才子,才女 Intelligent people bookish bookishly bookworm brain bright spark cerebral clever gnome intellectual laureate longhair mage pretty sage scholar smart cookie smart-arse swot the intelligentsia wit That, we fancy, is why we would rather read him on Catherine Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings, than on any subject connected with the war. There are frequent bluestockings, it is true, but they have no influence with the public, and are showing themselves entirely ineffectual in forcing public opinion in this regard. They were all clever, and well-read, without a tinge of the bluestocking, and most of them were musical to the tips of their slender fingers. Examples of bluestockingbluestocking His painting of the nine muses is used as emblematic of the emergence of bluestockings in the eighteenth century. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its title refers to bluestockings, a derogatory term for female intellectuals. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The word "bluestocking" today is used to mean any learned woman. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They referred to their circle as the bluestocking philosophers. 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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