查词典为您解释：

plebeian是什么意思？
  • 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 柯林斯词典释义
  • 英汉词典释义
  • 英英词典释义

plebeian

英[pləˈbi:ən] 美[plɪˈbiən]
  • 复数：plebeians;
    • 相关单词 plebeians
    例句
    查看更多关于 “plebeian” 的例句
    柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
    • ADJ
      （尤指历史上早期的）平民，庶民
      A person, especially one from an earlier period of history, who is plebeian, comes from a low social class.
      例句
      In the 1790s Tom Paine taught plebeian radicals that mankind would live in harmony were it not for the vested interest which princes, diplomats and soldiers had in promoting wars to enrich themselves. 汤姆·潘恩在18世纪90年代教育平民激进分子时论述到，如果不是为了实现王公、外交官和士兵借发起战争而使自己富有的潜在利益，人类本会生活在和谐之中。
    • ADJ-GRADED
      平庸的；市井的；粗俗的
      If someone describes something as plebeian, they think that it is unsophisticated and connected with or typical of people from a low social class.
      例句
      ...a philosophy professor with a cockney accent and an alarmingly plebeian manner... 一口伦敦土腔、举止粗俗不堪的哲学教授 He spent all day playing rackets on the beach, a plebeian sport if there ever was one. 他一整天都在海滩玩壁球，再没有比这更不入流的运动了。
    英汉词典释义
    • n.
      平民,庶民
      a plebeian’s bank 平民银行
    • adj.
      平民的,庶民的,百姓的
      a plebeian magistrate. 平民的地方行政官
      无教养的,鄙俗的;粗俗的
      plebeian tastes 庸俗的趣味
    英英词典释义
    • Noun
      1. one of the common people
    • Adjective
      1. of the common people of ancient Rome;
      "a plebeian magistrate"
      2. of or associated with the great masses of people;
      "the common people in those days suffered greatly""behavior that branded him as common""his square plebeian nose""a vulgar and objectionable person""the unwashed masses"