汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 市侩
市侩 (市儈)
unscrupulous businessperson / profiteer / philistine
买卖的中间人市侩牙人。泛指商人市侩牟利|市侩经营,犹不能无资本。借指唯利是图,投机取巧之人市侩哲学|市侩政客们。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

不仅是市侩之流认为读诗的人有点古怪。

It is not just the Babbitts who think there's something odd about people who read poetry.

时间限制了艺术家的骄傲和市侩的鄙俗。

Time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity.

戈培尔是个知识分子,看不起慕尼黑领导层不学无术的市侩庸人。

As an intellectual Goebbels looked down on the crude philistines of the leading group in Munich.

作为一个圈内人,她不宜再花过多时间评论同伴们的写作,鄙薄他们的市侩

As an insider, she couldn't spend so much time surveying the writing of her peers and caviling about their philistinism.