单词 | bourgeois |
释义 | bourgeoisbour‧geois /ˈbʊəʒwɑː $ bʊrˈʒwɑː/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINbourgeois ExamplesOrigin: 1500-1600 French ‘person who lives in a town’, from Old French borjois, from borc ‘town’, from Latin burgus ‘castle, town defended by a wall’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorthe middle class► middle-class Collocations belonging to the class of people who are usually well educated, fairly rich, and who work in jobs which they have trained to do. For example, doctors, lawyers, and managers are middle-class: · The newspaper's readers are mostly middle class.· They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town. ► bourgeois typical of richer middle-class people and their attitudes or way of life, especially their concern with money, property, and correct social behaviour: · She rejected her parents' conventional bourgeois lifestyle.· They never married because they believed that marriage was a bourgeois institution. ► the bourgeoisie the class that owns most of the wealth, property, and industry - use this especially when you are talking about politics or history: · The poor viewed with envy the increasing wealth of the bourgeoisie.· A revolution would be a threat to the nation's bourgeoisie. ► white-collar: white-collar worker/job/employee someone who works in an office, not a factory, mine etc: · The economic recession has put many white-collar workers in danger of losing their jobs. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► class 1belonging to the middle class: She came from a bourgeois family. bourgeois morality2too interested in having a lot of possessions and a high position in society: the backlash against bourgeois materialism3belonging to or typical of the part of society that is rich, educated, owns land etc, according to Marxism → proletarian—bourgeois noun [countable] → petty bourgeois· They contain elements of both worker and bourgeois class positions.· It is also appropriate therefore, to theorise lawyers as organic intellectuals of the bourgeois class.· The second source of error is the preoccupation with repression as the task of the agencies of the bourgeois class. ► culture· Was it not his father who had implicitly argued a case for the moral uprightness of bourgeois culture and bourgeois education?· The problem was the aristocratic aestheticism that the court nobility had bequeathed to Viennese bourgeois culture.· The result was either docile acquiescence to the hegemony of bourgeois culture or schizophrenia.· The task, in short, was to use bourgeois culture against the bourgeoisie.· This statement is often regarded as a curious relic of the values of bourgeois culture.· It failed to foster an independent, bourgeois culture.· Was it not his father who had resolutely argued a case for the necessary acquisition of bourgeois culture in order to succeed? ► family· Still, the existence and even reinforcement of the ideal-type bourgeois family in this period is significant.· Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family.· Thus his social psychology assumes the traditional bourgeois family structure as a norm.· The crucial point is that the structure of the bourgeois family flatly contradicted that of bourgeois society.· The bourgeois family model with its breadwinning husband and dependent wife and children was thus believed to secure male work incentives. ► ideology· Both the bourgeois ideology and the proletarian false consciousness are products of particular social relations present in capitalism. ► liberalism· These unhealthy trends needed to be corrected, he warned, and students firmly guided away from the false ideals of bourgeois liberalism. ► revolution· The degree of capitalist development implied the momentum of a bourgeois revolution.· Britain had at last experienced the long-awaited, long-delayed bourgeois revolution. ► society· In bourgeois society, the professions hover on the margin between tradesmen and gentlemen.· It is obvious, argues Cutler, how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society.· All avant-garde movements were anti-bourgeois and yet all were assimilated by the structures of bourgeois society.· Tensions in the relationship between trade unions and the Labour Party arise from their different locations within bourgeois society.· The crucial point is that the structure of the bourgeois family flatly contradicted that of bourgeois society.· In their view, Spengler diagnosed the main historical trends of human society and accurately predicted the fate of decaying bourgeois society.· These would no longer be parasitic, completely dependent on bourgeois society and playing no productive role. ► state· Embourgeoisement was irreversible; and the new bourgeois Britain could be governed successfully only through a bourgeois state.· The process favors, is even indispensable for, the development of a national bourgeois state. ► world· And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide - and unbridgeable. |
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