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单词 plebeian
释义
plebeian
adjective
formaldisapproving
uk
/pləˈbiː.ən/us
/pləˈbiː.ən/
belongingto alowsocialclass:
平民的；粗俗的
He used to makefunof what he called her "plebeianorigins".他过去常拿她所谓的“平民出身”来开玩笑。
Heretaineda plebeiantasteinfoodanddrink.他在吃喝上品位仍然很低俗。
Synonyms
common
lower classold-fashioned
vulgardisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
  • anti-bourgeois
  • anti-snob
  • arriviste
  • bougie
  • gentrification
  • gentrify
  • go/come down in the worldidiom
  • go/come up in the worldidiom
  • pedigreed
  • petit bourgeois
  • petty bourgeois
  • pleb
  • social mobility
  • the bottom of the heapidiom
  • the gentry
  • the petite bourgeoisie
  • the upper crust
  • trailer trash
  • underclass
  • upper class
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(Definition ofplebeianfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofplebeian

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The play concludes with a crowd of angry plebeians tearing him to pieces.
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This attention to the local, the contextual and theplebeianin understanding the outbreak of war has to be applauded.
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As a social practice it therefore embodied wider community beliefs regarding the defence ofplebeianlivelihoods and identities.
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The musician cannot conceive harmony in the midst of the noisy plebeians, and clearly regards his sounds as more valuable than those around him.
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Much of the evidence of cohabitation dates from the nineteenth century, and cannot automatically be interpreted as the survival of earlierplebeianpractices.
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From 1640, events in the county had been marked by an active popular involvement that could easily be reframed asplebeiandisorder.
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An important strand is whether political activists integrated theirplebeianrank and file into new party structures, thus neutralizing threats to status quo.
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Originally it was aplebeianrural and urban diversion and was popularised and commercialised during the middle and later decades of the twentieth century.
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Politicians had to consider the opinions ofplebeianworkers when they appealed to their constituencies.
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Ministers were persuaded that something decisive needed to be done about the radical press, to which they attributed the alarming growth ofplebeiandisaffection.
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Inflammatory language that was obviously intended for aplebeianaudience was likely to draw the attention of the crown lawyers.
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It could also help to overcome the potential problem ofplebeianmanipulation of the masses.
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Negative reactions to modernism are better explained as a response conditioned by a literary discourse in whichplebeianautodidacts as well as middle-class readers participated.
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This working bricolage provides a many-layered testament to the complexities ofplebeianmasculinities and the social and ideological dynamics of both progressive politics and literary sub-cultures.
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Libertine pleasures of metropolitan life and the increasing flexibility ofplebeianmorals could spark flares of jealousy and fanned fears of abandonment.
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