beatnik

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n. "垮了的一代"的一员

发音

其它 /ˈbiːtnɪk/

词形变化

beatniki beatniks 复数 beatniks beatniki 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.

  2. 2.

    A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

beat

上位词 2

nonconformist recusant

整体词 3

beats beat generation beatniks

词源

Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + -nik (“person who exemplifies or endorses something”). Compare jazznik. The suffix, a cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -ник (-nik), experienced a surge of use in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.

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