Plebeian
[plɪ'biːən] or [plə'biən]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
(n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.
(n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
錄入:内丽
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Ignoble, low, mean, base, vulgar, untitled, base-born, low-born.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Low, vulgar, lowborn, lowbred, coarse, ignoble
ANT:Patrician, noble, aristocratic, refined, highborn, high-bred
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解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to or consisting of the common people: popular: vulgar.—n. originally one of the common people of ancient Rome: one of the lower classes.—v.t. Plebei′anise.—ns. Plebei′anism state of being a plebeian: the conduct or manners of plebeians: vulgarity; Plebificā′tion the act of making plebeian.—v.t. Pleb′ify to make plebeian: to vulgarise.
錄入:玛丽埃塔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician who was a saturated solution.
編輯:波西亚
例句/造句/用法:
- He's drunk; he's a drunken plebeian. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Now (this is entirely between ourselves), is she very plebeian? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Plebeian, prince, and noble had one solicitude in common--they would not be forgotten! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The plebeian power to stop business by the veto of their representatives, the tribunes, was fully exercised. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This community followed the usual tradition of a division into aristocratic and common citizens, who were called in Rome patricians and plebeians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This Lex Valeria was the Habeas Corpus of Rome, and it freed the Roman plebeians from the worst dangers of class vindictiveness in the law courts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The plebeians were ousted from any share in the conquered lands, which the patricians divided up among themselves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The plebeians withdrew again a second time to the Sacred Mount, and Appius Claudius committed suicide in prison. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Before the Punic Wars it was the tendency of ambitious men in Rome to court the plebeians; after that time they began to court the legions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And finally (3) there were patricians big-minded and far-seeing enough to insist upon the need of reconciliation with the plebeians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Trade was coming to Rome with increasing political power, and many plebeians were growing rich and many patricians becoming relatively poor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The mass of the details of this struggle between patricians and plebeians we can afford to ignore in this outline. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For a long time the Roman patricians were clever enough to beat every such potential tyrant by giving in to a certain extent to the plebeians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
手打:曼弗雷德