单词 | big brother |
释义 | big brother 1. an elder brother. 2. (sometimes caps.) a man who individually or as a member of an organized group undertakes to sponsor or assist a boy in need of help or guidance. 3. (usually caps.) the head of a totalitarian regime that keeps its citizens under close surveillance. 4. (usually caps.) the aggregate of officials and policy makers of a powerful and pervasive state. 5. CB Radio Slang. a police officer or police car. [1860-65; 1949 for defs. 3 and 4, the epithet of a dictator in G. Orwell's novel 1984] |
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