| 单词 | bourgeoisie |
| 释义 | bourgeoisiebour‧geoi‧sie /ˌbʊəʒwɑːˈziː $ ˌbʊr-/ noun Word OriginWORD ORIGINbourgeoisie ExamplesOrigin: 1700-1800 French bourgeois; ➔ BOURGEOISEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorthe middle class► middle-class Collocations belonging to the class of people who are usually well educated, fairly rich, and who work in jobs which they have trained to do. For example, doctors, lawyers, and managers are middle-class: · The newspaper's readers are mostly middle class.· They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town. ► bourgeois typical of richer middle-class people and their attitudes or way of life, especially their concern with money, property, and correct social behaviour: · She rejected her parents' conventional bourgeois lifestyle.· They never married because they believed that marriage was a bourgeois institution. ► the bourgeoisie the class that owns most of the wealth, property, and industry - use this especially when you are talking about politics or history: · The poor viewed with envy the increasing wealth of the bourgeoisie.· A revolution would be a threat to the nation's bourgeoisie. ► white-collar: white-collar worker/job/employee someone who works in an office, not a factory, mine etc: · The economic recession has put many white-collar workers in danger of losing their jobs. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► industrial Phrases· For although the great mass of its membership was working class, it also embraced an increasing section of the industrial bourgeoisie.· Within the Alliance interests of local petit bourgeoisie and industrial bourgeoisie converged. ► local· Within the Alliance interests of local petit bourgeoisie and industrial bourgeoisie converged. ► national· They initially thought that competition from powerful foreign interests would encourage the national bourgeoisie to take an anti-imperialist stand.· The Yugoslavs sought a close, opportunistic alliance with the national bourgeoisie of the colonial and semicolonial countries.· What it would put a stop to is the reactionary policy of subordinating the revolutionary vanguard to the national bourgeoisie. ► new· Far more important, however, has been the merging of the new bourgeoisie with the traditional aristocracy.· For it is as a member, and a recorder, of the new bourgeoisie that Boilly most deserves our attention. ► petty· An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime. 2.· I had better go now and pay my respects to the petty bourgeoisie.· Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the bourgeoisie the bourgeoisie the people in a society who are rich, educated, own land etc, according to Marxism → the proletariat
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