请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 culture snob
释义

> as lemmas

culture snob
b. attributive and objective (in sense 6) as culture hunger, culture instinct, culture snob, etc.; culture-hungry, culture-loving, culture-rich, culture-specific, adjs.
ΚΠ
1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 23 Aug. 201 The race of culture humbugs.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 28 The present culture-condition of West Africa.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. Pref. p. ix Your superior culture-instincts may militate against your enjoying West Africa.
1901 R. W. Rogers Hist. Babylonia & Assyria I. x. 297 The cities of Assyria were not so ancient as those of Babylonia, and their general character was..military rather than peaceful and culture-loving.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 11/2 A modernised, constitutional, culture-loving Turkish State.
1927 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 7 Aug. 6/7 The culture hungry public must grow accustomed to such sights and the nude statue was allowed to kneel without disturbance.
1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 226 Most professional intellectuals will approve of culture-snobbery (even while intensely disliking most individual culture-snobs).
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 39 301 (title) The bureaucratic culture pattern and political revolution.
1938 D. Thomas Let. 23 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 190 Advanced writing..sells very well over there [i.e. in America], they're such culture-snobs.
1939 ‘M. Innes’ Stop Press iii. iii. 376 You couldn't have a more persistent culture-hound.
1940 Philos. Sci. 7 492 The task of the social sciences is an enduring one, for their facts are transitory and culture specific.
1955 20th Cent. June 536 An attack on contemporary ‘Culture’-mongers.
1960 A. Koestler Lotus & Robot 279 Literacy, culture-hunger and leisure-time are increasing even more rapidly than the birth-rate.
1961 Bennington (Vermont) Evening Banner 31 Aug. 4/1 Ours is a culture-rich state which prides itself on getting along without the works of expatriots like Henry Miller.
1990 What Satellite July 97/1 American Forces TV for the troops in Germany..would be the best bet for transatlantic culture fiends.
2007 Sunday Rev. (Nexis) 11 Feb. 9 Forget Barcelona and Paris: the key cities for culture-hungry travellers are not where you'd expect.
extracted from culturen.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/20 21:36:35