middlebrow

a. 只有中等文化素养的, 自以为渊博实则浅薄的 n. 只有中等文化素养的人, 自以为渊博实则浅薄的人

词形变化

middlebrows 复数 middlebrows

别名

midbrow middle brow middle-brow

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.

    中庸之辈

    贬义

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

actor worker doer

词源

From middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by Virginia Woolf (1930s) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).

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