| 单词 | small bourgeois |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall bourgeois small bourgeois adj. and n. [after French petit bourgeois petit bourgeois n.] = petit bourgeois n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois moyen1481 middling1631 bourgeois1761 small bourgeois1832 lower middle class1835 middle class1836 bourgeoisistic1848 petty bourgeois1864 upper middle class1872 petit bourgeois1887 lace curtain1928 haut bourgeois1940 bourgie1968 1832 Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. July 494 Political knowledge penetrates in the most remote parts of France—there,..every small bourgeois, every peasant, who grows rich, resolves that his son shall be a gentleman, un Monsieur. 1848 Weekly Chron. 2 July 5 If you attempt to disprove this statement, the small bourgeois fly into a passion. 1861 tr. A. de Tocqueville Mem., Lett. & Remains II. 226 The electoral body soon became nothing but a small bourgeois oligarchy, devoted to its special interests, and separated from the lower classes, for whom it did not care, and who cared nothing for it. 1918 Manch. Guardian 13 Dec. 7/4 The Menshevik and the small bourgeois parties have published a declaration. 1930 A. Bennett Imperial Palace lv. 414 Customers of the small bourgeois class. 1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 134 A very small-bourgeois existence, with a canary. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 21 Jan. Anton Pavlovich..began, with his patients, to accumulate those subtle observations of peasants, small bourgeois and army officers..which fed his art. 1993 Harper's Mag. Jan. 42/2 The Communist parties..had become small-bourgeois capitalist parties. < as lemmas |
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