- 1通俗的（帶貶義，覺得沒水準、沒深度）
Lowbrow is a judging word for books, films, newspapers, and other entertainment that is easy to follow and does not deal with serious ideas about art or culture. A lowbrow magazine is light and popular; a lowbrow comedy goes for easy laughs. People who use the word usually look down on that kind of thing — they are saying it is not 'high' culture. It is informal, a bit snobbish, and more American in feel. You can also call a person a lowbrow, meaning they do not care for 'serious' art, though that use is even sharper. Though actually, what counts as lowbrow changes with the speaker: one person's lowbrow TV is another person's harmless fun, and the word tells you as much about the speaker's pride as about the show.
組成A compound of low + brow (the forehead). An American word from about 1902. It comes from an old idea, no longer believed, called phrenology: that a person with a lower brow-line was less intelligent and less refined. The word kept the insult and dropped the science.
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- highbrowthe opposite: proud of serious, 'difficult' art and ideas
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
lowbrowadj/ˈloʊbɹaʊ/
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Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
- The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.
lowbrownoun/ˈloʊbɹaʊ/
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Someone or something of low education or culture.
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artartsAn underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。