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

• She complained of my being too highbrow.
  她不满我太热衷于高深学问。
• ( informal) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow.
  （非正式）既不博学亦不浅薄的人。
• In this five to ten years ago, both investment-type projects, or home-based properties are not too highbrow.
  在这五到十年前，不论是投资型的项目，还是自住型的房产，都难免曲高和寡。
• But he has always attracted serious-minded partisans eager to mount a highbrow defense of the lowbrow.
  但他总能吸引热心的坚定支持者，急著以他们的高文化素养为他的低俗文化辩护。
• 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。
• 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。
• Such highbrow outfits tend to have small, select clienteles and are constantly trying to broaden their appeal, often by offering discounts and staying open late on Friday and Saturday nights.
  那些阳春白雪类的机构倾向于拥有那些数量少的，精选出来的客户，并且通常是通过提供折扣和周五周六晚上推迟打烊，设法持续扩大他们的吸引力。
• To be sure, these programmes are not necessarily highbrow-or not compared to your average trendy French art-house film.
  没错，这些节目不一定高雅，至少没有一般流行的法国艺术剧院的电影高雅。
• This is a too highbrow general developers afraid of the market mechanism;
  这是一个曲高和寡，一般发展商不敢部问津的市场；
• The guest speaker was a highbrow Professor from the local college.
  那位邀请来的讲演者，是当地大学里一位（自以为）学识渊博的教授。