They have a better export record with highbrow, low-plot movies, set in chic apartments with parquet floors, that feel moodily French.(他们有更好的作品出口,一些文艺范儿,低情节的电影,背景是布置精致的公寓,镶花的地板,这才是有着忧郁情绪的法国影片。)
Language has been enriched with such terms as "highbrow", "egghead", "blue-stocking", "wiseacre", "know-all", "boffin" and, for many, "intellectual" is a term of denigration.(因为这些词语,比如,“卖弄知识的人”、“书呆子”、“女才子”、“自认聪明的人”、“自以为无所不知的人”,以及“研究员”,语言都变得丰富了起来,而且对大多数人来说,“知识分子”是一个诋毁的词语。)
Culture can be dealt with in two categories: "highbrow culture" and "lowbrow culture".(文化可以分为两大类,即知识文化和交际文化。)
We had a highbrow discussion on classical music.(我们就古典音乐来了一次高水准的讨论。)
Yes, he says that the shops that sell books - that's the retailers - say the books people are buying are more highbrow - the classics, as we were talking about.(他说销售书籍的商店,也就是零售商表示如今人们偏向于购买高深难懂的书籍,像我们刚刚提到的经典作品。)
He was a novelist of a sort that scarcely exists anymore: a serious, highbrow entertainer.(他这一类型的小说家几乎已绝迹:一个严肃、博学的娱乐作家。)
But highbrow films now come with higher hopes.(但严肃题材电影迎来了更高的期许。)
Light reading - not highbrow. She was also at this interview about the Commuter Book Club.(这种消遣阅读不属于高雅文学。她在采访中也提到了上班族读书俱乐部。)
Bernd Ulrich, in Die Zeit, a highbrow weekly newspaper, identified several reasons for western gratitude.(贝尔恩德。乌尔里希在德国《时代》周刊(精英周刊)上指出西德人应当感恩的一些理由。)
To be close, even if not highbrow, still a clear water, Protection of Wages on the floor, good view of life.(待行近,纵使没有曲高和寡,依旧一份清水,落英满地,人生好风景。)