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单词 barbarian
释义
barbarianbar‧bar‧i‧an /bɑːˈbeəriən $ bɑːrˈber-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbarbarian
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French barbarien, from Latin barbarus; BARBAROUS
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • His friends are a bunch of barbarians - they don't even wash their hands before they eat.
  • The barbarians conquered Rome.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A quick end, rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall.
  • He was not the man to deny the Romans access to the wealth of the barbarians.
  • Is Gates the barbarian at the gates of the banks?
  • It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets, civilised men fight with gossip.
  • Next day the barbarians strove with no better success.
  • Other poets celebrated the victories of the Seleucids and of the Attalids against the same barbarians.
  • We have brought the barbarian across the Rhine in order to help defend our frontiers.
word sets
WORD SETS
age, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun
1someone from a different tribe or land, who people believe to be wild and not civilized:  The Roman Empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine.2someone who does not behave properly, and does not show proper respect for education, art etc:  The youths were described as uncivilised barbarians who savagely attacked innocent victims.3someone who behaves in a way that is cruel and uncivilized
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