barbarian

英 [bɑː'beərɪən] 美 [bɑr'bɛrɪən]

解释

※ 提供单词"barbarian"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

barbarian 野蛮人

barbar, 拟声词，模仿含混不清说话的声音，既指野蛮人，也指外国人。

barbarian (adj.): mid-14c., from Medieval Latin barbarinus (source of Old French barbarin "Berber, pagan, Saracen, barbarian"), from Latin barbaria "foreign country," from Greek barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (compare Sanskrit barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan," Latin balbus "stammering," Czech blblati "to stammer").

Greek barbaroi (n.) meant "all that are not Greek," but especially the Medes and Persians. Originally not entirely pejorative, its sense darkened after the Persian wars. The Romans (technically themselves barbaroi) took up the word and applied it to tribes or nations which had no Greek or Roman accomplishments. The noun is from late 14c., "person speaking a language different from one's own," also (c. 1400) "native of the Barbary coast;" meaning "rude, wild person" is from 1610s.

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1. Our maths teacher was a bully and a complete barbarian.: 我们的数学老师是个坏蛋，一个彻头彻尾的野蛮人。

2. We need to fight this barbarian attitude to science.: 我们需要与这种对待科学的野蛮态度作斗争。

5. The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.: 家族里的其他人员认为,这样的制服只适合野蛮人或最低贱的人穿.