英语词汇“aunt edna”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Aunt Edna n. a (supposedly) typical theatregoer of conservative taste; also occasionally in extended use with reference to other arts.Coined by the British playwright Terence Rattigan (1911–77).

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1953 T. Rattigan Coll. Plays II. p. xii Let us invent a character, a nice, respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it... Let us call her Aunt Edna... Now Aunt Edna does not appreciate Kafka... She is, in short, a hopeless lowbrow.

1958 N. F. Simpson Resounding Tinkle in Observer Plays 241 The author..leans forward..to make simultaneous overtures of sumptuous impropriety to every Aunt Edna in the house.

1963 T. Rattigan in Daily Express 8 July 6/2 It is still assumed by some critics that I am still writing to lift the hearts of those Aunt Ednas of mine.

1990 P. Green Alexander to Actium 246 A group of women, as featherbrained and talkative as Theocritus's Syracusan matrons,..praising, like so many Aunt Ednas, the realism of the artwork on display.

2011 Observer (Nexis) 27 Feb. (Review section) 36 In the USSR of the 1950s, playwrights..had to conform to Stalin's notions of socialist realism; in 1950s UK, it was the West End, ‘Aunt Edna’ and the censor they had to please.

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释义	> as lemmas Aunt Edna Aunt Edna n. a (supposedly) typical theatregoer of conservative taste; also occasionally in extended use with reference to other arts.Coined by the British playwright Terence Rattigan (1911–77). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > conservative Aunt Edna1953 1953 T. Rattigan Coll. Plays II. p. xii Let us invent a character, a nice, respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it... Let us call her Aunt Edna... Now Aunt Edna does not appreciate Kafka... She is, in short, a hopeless lowbrow. 1958 N. F. Simpson Resounding Tinkle in Observer Plays 241 The author..leans forward..to make simultaneous overtures of sumptuous impropriety to every Aunt Edna in the house. 1963 T. Rattigan in Daily Express 8 July 6/2 It is still assumed by some critics that I am still writing to lift the hearts of those Aunt Ednas of mine. 1990 P. Green Alexander to Actium 246 A group of women, as featherbrained and talkative as Theocritus's Syracusan matrons,..praising, like so many Aunt Ednas, the realism of the artwork on display. 2011 Observer (Nexis) 27 Feb. (Review section) 36 In the USSR of the 1950s, playwrights..had to conform to Stalin's notions of socialist realism; in 1950s UK, it was the West End, ‘Aunt Edna’ and the censor they had to please. extracted from auntn. < as lemmas
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