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A beatnik was a young person, mostly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, who pushed back against tidy, ordinary American life. People pictured them in dark clothes, maybe a beret, hanging around coffee shops, listening to jazz, reading poetry, talking about freedom and art. The word sits next to the Beat Generation — writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg — but beatnik was coined by a newspaper man, Herb Caen, in 1958, and it often sounded teasing or cartoonish. Many “real” Beats did not love the label. came later and looked different: more colour, more hair, more talk of peace and dropping out. A student who mixes beatnik and hippie is mixing two decades. The word is now mostly historical; you would not call a a beatnik unless you were joking about an old style.
比特尼克（1950 年代末「垮掉的一代」那種年輕人；和後來的嬉皮不一樣）
組成Coined by the American columnist Herb Caen in 1958: beat (as in Beat Generation) + -nik (“person who is into something”). The cute or ironic use of Russian -ник (-nik) spread in English nicknames after the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957. Compare jazznik.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beatniknoun/ˈbiːtnɪk/
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A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
- The drive against the stilyagi has hampered but not destroyed the development of (Soviet-style) “beatniki” among the younger artistic and literary intelligentsia. […] The tendency of Soviet “beatniki” is to emulate what they consider the Left-Bank bohemianism of Paris. It is a faint whisper of a similar movement among young East European intellectuals, particularly in Poland, to make ultrasophistication their mark of separateness from “proletarian” society.
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A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
- The Beatles first surfaced in the USSR in 1964, when the style of dress of the ‘Beatniki’ was enthusiastically copied.
- Worrying news from the west upset Soviet authorities even further. Punk rock was already causing trouble in Poland and other east-European countries. Did someone in the administration fear a repetition of Beatlemania, with decent, twist-dancing beatniki being replaced by pogo-dancing, sneering and gobbing impersonators of Johnny Rotten?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。