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单词 Babbitt
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Babbitt /babˈit/

noun

A conventional middle-class businessman (or other person) who esteems success and has no use for art or intellectual pursuits

ORIGIN: Eponymous hero of novel (1922) by Sinclair Lewis

Babbˈittry, Babbˈitry or Babbˈittism noun

babbitt /babˈit/

transitive verb

To fit with Babbitt, Babbit or Babbitt's metal, a soft anti-friction alloy (tin, with copper, antimony, and usu lead)

ORIGIN: Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862), the Massachusetts inventor
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