middlebrow

英 ['mɪd(ə)lbraʊ]
  • n. 知能学识平凡的人;中庸
  • adj. 极普通的;只有中等文化素养的

中文词源


middlebrow 品位一般的

比喻用法。比较highbrow,lowbrow.

英文词源


middlebrow
1911 (adj.), 1912 (n.), from middle + brow (compare highbrow, lowbrow).
[T]here is an alarmingly wide chasm, I might almost say a vacuum, between the high-brow, who considers reading either as a trade or as a form of intellectual wrestling, and the low-brow, who is merely seeking for gross thrills. It is to be hoped that culture will soon be democratized through some less conventional system of education, giving rise to a new type that might be called the middle-brow, who will consider books as a source of intellectual enjoyment. ["The Nation," Jan, 25, 1912]

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