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单词 lowbrow
释义
lowbrow
adjective
mainlydisapproving
uk
/ˈləʊ.braʊ/us
/ˈloʊ.braʊ/
(ofentertainment) notcomplicatedordemandingmuchintelligenceto beunderstood:
（娱乐消遣）肤浅的，庸俗的
HeregardsthesortofbooksIreadas very lowbrow.他认为我看的书太庸俗。
I like a lowbrowactionmovieoncein a while.偶尔我喜欢看些通俗的动作片。
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(Definition oflowbrowfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

lowbrow| American Dictionary

lowbrow
adjective
disapproving
us
/ˈloʊˌbrɑʊ/
(ofliterature,art,music,movies, orplays) notseriousandintendedforpeoplewho do notknowmuch about theseformsofart, or (ofpeople) notintelligentand notknowinga lot about such things:
lowbrowtastes
lowbrowreaders
(Definition oflowbrowfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflowbrow

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At this point, all too obviously, sentimentalism moved from high- to middlebrow, and from there tolowbrowin the twentieth century.
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On the one hand, for "highbrow" research or methods to succeed, to have a utility value, these techniques have to find implementation in "lowbrow" commercial software in use in practice.
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Warren's stylistic choices compounded his offence by looking to a sentimental,lowbrowliterature and gesturing toward the necessarily subjective stance of even the physician.
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Compare, for example, "sophisticated," which would have adequately poked fun at suchlowbrowtaste by playing on the common equation of sophistication with something positive to which most would aspire.
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They would like all the arts to resemble rock music, relentlesslylowbrow, vastly profitable and nakedly populist.
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This is not an issue of highbrow againstlowbrow.
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I was doing my ironing the other day and was listening to alowbrowprogramme on the wireless.
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I do not agree with the suggestion that the exhibitions, or the stage plays, may be highbrow,lowbrow, middlebrow, or any other brow.
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Will there belowbrowvariety?
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But what did the lowbrows think?
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The authors describe the piece as combining highbrow concept andlowbrowhumour.
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The students score two points if they get the highbrow question right or one point if they get thelowbrowquestion right.
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It was a term of division and derision, and became shorthand for a population consideredlowbrow, coarse and lacking education and cultural refinement.
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Criticism centred on the informal style of presentation which was perceived by some commentators to be toolowbrowfor a royal occasion.
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Designed as centers for entertainment and moral education for the working class ("lowbrow"), the museums were distinctly different from upper-middle class' cultural events ("highbrow").
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