英语词汇“the bloomsbury set”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A group of persons in society having its own peculiar interests, fashions, and conventions; a social group of a select or exclusive character. Frequently with qualifying adj. or n. indicating the location, affiliation, or characteristic activities of the group, as the Bloomsbury (Chelsea, Cliveden, etc.) set. smart set: see smart adj. 14. Cf. jet set n.

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society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive

sect1608

circle1646

coterie1738

circuit1752

set1780

in-group1906

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. ii. 12 The set she meets at her house, encourage her to disobedience.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 91 Sir Edward, not deigning to mingle with the set, leaned on his daughter's chair.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. iv. 69 They will move in the first set in Bath.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 33 What a delightful ‘set’ she belonged to at her school: how comfortable they all were once, without any sets, till several grocers' daughters began to come in.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 1 I was there From college, visiting the son,..with others of our set.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. viii. 80 Your intimacy was with Emma. It has cooled. Your sets are different. The Tomkins's are not quite &c. &c.

1890 W. Besant Demoniac i These men constituted the best set in the College... All were reading men, and all good men.

1906 B. Vaughan Sins of Society (1908) 16 What a treacherous world was the Smart Set in which the Prodigal rioted.

1914 J. M. Keynes Let. 2 July in R. F. Harrod Life J. M. Keynes (1951) iv. 171 She..is asking no one but a few of my so-called ‘Bloomsbury set’!

1922 M. Cowley in Dial 73 231 She [sc. K. Mansfield] has three backgrounds only: continental hotels, New Zealand upper-class society, and a certain artistic set in London.

1938 H. Nicolson Diary 19 Sept. (1966) 361 We talk of..how terrible has been the influence of the Cliveden set.

1944 N. Coward Middle East Diary 49 This place is the last refuge of the soi-disant ‘International Set’.

1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells ix. 107 I climbed,..Until I reached what seemed to me the peak—The leisured set in Canterbury Quad.

1977 News of World 17 Apr. 5/5 The Prince of the Beatniks abdicated... He said goodbye to the Chelsea Set.

单词	the bloomsbury set
释义	> as lemmas the Bloomsbury (Chelsea, Cliveden, etc.) set a. A group of persons in society having its own peculiar interests, fashions, and conventions; a social group of a select or exclusive character. Frequently with qualifying adj. or n. indicating the location, affiliation, or characteristic activities of the group, as the Bloomsbury (Chelsea, Cliveden, etc.) set. smart set: see smart adj. 14. Cf. jet set n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive sect1608 circle1646 coterie1738 circuit1752 set1780 in-group1906 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. ii. 12 The set she meets at her house, encourage her to disobedience. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 91 Sir Edward, not deigning to mingle with the set, leaned on his daughter's chair. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. iv. 69 They will move in the first set in Bath. View more context for this quotation 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 33 What a delightful ‘set’ she belonged to at her school: how comfortable they all were once, without any sets, till several grocers' daughters began to come in. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 1 I was there From college, visiting the son,..with others of our set. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. viii. 80 Your intimacy was with Emma. It has cooled. Your sets are different. The Tomkins's are not quite &c. &c. 1890 W. Besant Demoniac i These men constituted the best set in the College... All were reading men, and all good men. 1906 B. Vaughan Sins of Society (1908) 16 What a treacherous world was the Smart Set in which the Prodigal rioted. 1914 J. M. Keynes Let. 2 July in R. F. Harrod Life J. M. Keynes (1951) iv. 171 She..is asking no one but a few of my so-called ‘Bloomsbury set’! 1922 M. Cowley in Dial 73 231 She [sc. K. Mansfield] has three backgrounds only: continental hotels, New Zealand upper-class society, and a certain artistic set in London. 1938 H. Nicolson Diary 19 Sept. (1966) 361 We talk of..how terrible has been the influence of the Cliveden set. 1944 N. Coward Middle East Diary 49 This place is the last refuge of the soi-disant ‘International Set’. 1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells ix. 107 I climbed,..Until I reached what seemed to me the peak—The leisured set in Canterbury Quad. 1977 News of World 17 Apr. 5/5 The Prince of the Beatniks abdicated... He said goodbye to the Chelsea Set. extracted from setn.² < as lemmas
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