Babbitt

n. 巴比特式人物 [医] 巴比特合金(锡、铜、锑的合金)

发音

US /ˈbæbɪt/
UK /ˈbæbɪt/
/ˈbæbət/

词形变化

Babbitts 复数

别名

Babbit

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals.

    美国 过时

    A Babbitt met a Bromide on the avenue one day. They held a conversation in their own peculiar way.

    … a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.]

  2. 1.

    Alternative letter-case form of babbitt (“a soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction”).

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name
  1. 1.

    A surname.

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  2. 2.

    A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

Babbitt metal

上位词 2

metal alloy

相关短语

Babbitt metal [医] 巴比特合金, 锡铜锑合金 Babbitt metals babbitt metal babbitt metals

词源

From the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945).

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