汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 洋场恶少
洋场恶少 (洋場惡少)
city infested with foreign adventurers (esp. of Shanghai in pre-Liberation China) (idiom)
yáng () chǎng () è/ě/wù shǎo/shào
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

没落贵族家世与大上海洋场社会的生活背景造就了张爱玲的贵族气质和平民气质。

The declining aristocrat clan and luxurious social background in Shanghai brought up both Zhang Ailings aristocrat temperament and civilian temperament.

但当我看到那个优雅的恶少(我认识他,本来就鄙视他),听到他们冷酷无情,轻浮浅薄的对话后,我的怒火被熄灭了。

But when I saw the elegant bullies and I know he would despise him, hear their callous, frivolous conversation, my anger is extinguished.