 highbrow magazine: 精英雜志
[ 2006-08-01 09:00 ]
有評論認為，中國大陸至少有兩本情趣典雅、適合高品位文化人閱讀的人文雜志：《萬象》和《書城》。日前，因資金短缺遭遇休刊變故的精英人文雜志《書城》和《萬象》絕處逢生，再次出現在各大書店的柜臺前。
請看《中國日報》相關報道：Like the last knights fighting a losing war, two Shanghai-basedhighbrow magazinesShu Cheng and Wan Xiang have only recently published their first editions this year after financial difficulties forced a six-month suspension.
When they temporarily stopped publication, the press wrote eulogies on China's last "intellectual magazines," tailored to the reading tastes of the cultural elite.
由報道可知，適合高品位文化人閱讀的精英雜志可用“intellectual magazine”或“highbrow magazine”來表示，這里著重談一下單詞highbrow。與intellectual相比，highbrow的語義范圍更具體，更側重形容有“高深”學問或文化素養的人，如They only attend highbrow events such as the ballet or the opera.（他們只欣賞高雅藝術，如芭蕾和歌劇。）
在實際運用中，highbrow有時也用來指“自炫淵博的知識分子”，這時，他的貶抑色彩不言而喻。與highbrow相對的一個詞是lowbrow（庸俗、粗俗、教養淺薄的人）。
(英語點津陳蓓編輯）
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