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highbrow

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ˈhaɪbraʊ
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释义

adj. 不切实际的;自炫博学的;知识分子的 n. 卖弄知识的人;知识分子

例句

He presents his own highbrow literary programme.
他对自己那高深难懂的文学节目做了介绍。
Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was "too sophisticated" to appeal to most viewers.
品味高雅的评论家轻蔑地表示,该节目“太深奥”,对大部分观众没有吸引力。
Language has been enriched with such terms as "highbrow", "egghead", "blue-stocking", "wiseacre", "know-all", "boffin" and, for many, "intellectual" is a term of denigration.
因为这些词语,比如,“卖弄知识的人”、“书呆子”、“女才子”、“自认聪明的人”、“自以为无所不知的人”,以及“研究员”,语言都变得丰富了起来,而且对大多数人来说,“知识分子”是一个诋毁的词语。

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Recently, I've also made somerather highbrow baroque bordersout of lowbrow pasta.
and you think that we're in a noisy sports bar,and I think we're in a highbrow salonwith a string quartet talking about Baudrillard.
It also gave us "queen" and "cow,"slightly bizarre, which is slightly less highbrow, but --It turns up again in the Middle Ages in "quaint,"
I love them. So we are in the right quadrant.We are in the Highbrow -- that's daring, that's courageous --and Brilliant, which is great.
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