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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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