highbrow

英 [ˈhaɪbraʊ]

美 [ˈhaɪbraʊ]

adj.  关于正统艺术(或文化)思想的; 对正统的艺术(或文化)感兴趣的

复数：highbrows　

GRETEM8

BNC.25866 / COCA.22359

牛津词典

adj.

• 关于正统艺术（或文化）思想的；对正统的艺术（或文化）感兴趣的
  concerned with or interested in serious artistic or cultural ideas
  1. highbrow newspapers
     格调高雅的报纸
  2. highbrow readers
     趣味高雅的读者

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （书籍、讨论）高深难懂的，高雅的，学术性的
  If you say that a book or discussion ishighbrow, you mean that it is intellectual, academic, and is often difficult to understand.
  1. ...highbrow classical music...
     高雅的古典音乐
  2. He presents his own highbrow literary programme.
     他介绍了自己那个专业性很强的文学项目的情况。
• ADJ-GRADED （人）对高深学问感兴趣的，修养（或品味）高雅的
  If you describe someone ashighbrow, you mean that they are interested in serious subjects of a very intellectual nature, especially when these are difficult to understand.
  1. Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was 'too sophisticated' to appeal to most viewers.
     品位高雅的批评家们轻蔑地表示，该节目“太深奥”，对多数观众没有吸引力。
  2. Highbrowis also a noun.
     
  3. ...the sniggers of the highbrows.
     品味高雅者的窃笑

英英释义

noun

• a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

adj

• highly cultured or educated
  1. highbrow events such as the ballet or opera
  2. a highbrowed literary critic
  Synonym:highbrowed

双语例句

• I see it everywhere, from the middle pages of highbrow pop culture publications to the style sections of local broadsheets.
  我看到很多地方从波普文学出版物的中页到当地大幅海报的部分风格。
• He presents his own highbrow literary programme.
  他介绍了自己那个专业性很强的文学项目的情况。
• Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was 'too sophisticated' to appeal to most viewers.
  品位高雅的批评家们轻蔑地表示，该节目“太深奥”，对多数观众没有吸引力。
• ( informal) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow.
  （非正式）既不博学亦不浅薄的人。
• He thinks Yahoo board of directors is highbrow to the assessment of company value.
  他认为雅虎董事会对公司价值的评估是不切实际的。
• But not all such pre-commitment devices are as successful: just think of the people who subscribe to gyms and never exercise, or highbrow journals they never read.
  但并非所有这种预先承诺的方法都如此成功：只要想想那些办卡健身却从来没去锻炼的人，或者那些订了高雅杂志、却从未读过的人就清楚了。
• For artists motivation often incompatible with the public interest, so artists may love that too highbrow East Atrium, international, may not be popular applause.
  因为，艺术家的兴奋点往往与大众的兴趣相悖，所以，艺术家的热爱意味着东晶？国际可能曲高和寡，叫好可能并不叫座。
• Highbrow and popular culture meet at the Tennispalatsi with its museums and movie theaters.
  高雅与通俗文化交汇在坦尼斯宫的博物馆与电影院。
• Each highbrow did and does congratulate himself on being unique in his unlikeness to other men;
  每个有学问的人信用着自己与其他人的纷歧般；
• IN THIS ARTICLE: People rejected the English language game Scrabble at first as too "highbrow" or "complicated".
  本文简介：人们起初以高深复杂为由拒绝接受拼字游戏这种英语文字游戏。