| 单词 | barbarian |
| 释义 | bar·bar·i·an I. 1. < barbarian tribes massing on the borders of the Roman Empire > < the Chinese emperor received with civility a mission from the barbarian West > 2. < introduced me to his loud, boisterous, barbarian mother > < a barbarian race which possesses neither virtue nor humanity — R.L.Bruckberger > 3. Synonyms: < some barbarian peoples have brought their mores into true adjustment to their life conditions and have gone on for centuries without change — W.G.Sumner > barbaric and barbarous may also be used to express this notion < they had passed the barbaric stage when they invaded Chaldea. They knew the use of metals; they were skillful architects and … good engineers — Edward Clodd > < Caesar's short sketch of the Germans gives the impression of barbarous peoples … they had not yet reached the agricultural stage, but were devoted to war and hunting — H.O.Taylor > savage implies even less advancement < for savage or semicivilized men … authority is needed to restrain them from injuring themselves — C.W.Eliot > barbarous and savage are somewhat more common than barbaric and barbarian to indicate uncivilized cruelty, but all may be used < he required as a condition of peace that they should sacrifice their children to Baal no longer. But the barbarous custom was too inveterate — J.G.Frazer > < the King's greed passed into savage menace. He would hang all, he swore — man, woman, the very child at the breast — J.R.Green > < they had further traits and customs which are barbaric rather than specifically Teutonic: cruelty and faithlessness toward enemies, feuds, wergeld — H.O.Taylor > < for him those chambers held barbarian hordes, hyena foeman, and hot-blooded lords — John Keats > barbaric and barbarous are more common in relation to taste and refinement. barbaric connotes a wild, profuse lack of restraint < this audacious and barbaric profusion of words — chosen always for their color and their vividly expressive quality — Arthur Symons > < the march became rather splendid and barbaric. First rode Feisal in white, then Sharraf at his right in red headcloth and henna-dyed tunic and cloak, myself on his left in white and scarlet, behind us three banners of faded crimson silk with gilt spikes — T.E.Lawrence > barbarous implies an utter lack of cultivated taste and refinement < a race of unconscious spiritual helots. We shall become utterly barbarous and desolate — Ludwig Lewisohn > < but his deeply barbarous book may, in its very vulgarity of expression, be in advance of its time — Dorothy Thompson > II. 1. < a cultural conceit which divided the world into Greeks and barbarians — Frederick Bodmer > < he is … a barbarian in the arts of the table — Sinclair Lewis > < he would be a barbarian indeed who failed to appreciate exquisite flowers, rare lace, … and feminine charm — H.M.Parshley > 2. slang |
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