- 1對藝術文學沒感覺（甚至瞧不起）的人；俗人。聖經裡的「非利士人」是古族名，現代這個用法指沒品味，不要混在一起。
If you call someone a philistine, you are saying they do not like or understand art, literature, music, and the like — or that they find those things pointless and are rather proud of not caring. It is an , slightly literary insult, more at home in reviews and essays than in casual chat. It can be a noun (a philistine) or an adjective (a philistine attitude). Though actually the word first named an ancient people, the Philistines, who lived on the coast of what is now Israel and Gaza, and who in the Hebrew Bible were enemies of the . Much later, German students used a similar word for uncultured , and English writers in the 1800s turned it into this cultural insult. So in modern English the everyday meaning is about taste, not about that ancient people — unless you are clearly in a Bible or history class. It looks a little like philosophy, but it does not come from Greek phil- ‘love’.
組成From the name of the ancient Philistines: Hebrew p'lishtím, via Greek and Latin (Philistinus), Old French, and Middle English. The ‘no taste for art’ meaning came later, through German student slang and then English.
同家族的字
- philistinismthe attitude of a philistine; same stem plus -ism
原始詞典資料8 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。
Philistinenoun/ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/
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historicalA non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.
- Then the lords of the Philiſtines gathered them together, for to offer a great ſacrifice vnto Dagon their god, and to reioyce; for they ſaid, Our god hath deliuered Samſon our enemy into our hand.
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
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An opponent (of the speaker, writer, etc); an enemy, a foe.
- In very truth what could poor old Abbot Hugo do? A frail old man; and the Philistines were upon him,—that is to say, the Hebrews.
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historicalIn German universities: a person not associated with the university; a non-academic or non-student; a townsperson.
Philistineadj/ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/
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historicalOriginating from ancient Philistia; of or pertaining to the ancient Philistines.
philistinenoun/ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/
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derogatoryA person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.
- [W]hen he [Christoph Friedrich Nicolai] wrote against [Immanuel] Kant's philosophy, without comprehending it; and judged of poetry as he judged of Brunswick mum, by its utility, many people thought him wrong. A man of such spiritual habilitudes is now by the Germans called a Philister, Philistine: Nicolai earned for himself the painful pre-eminence of being Erz-Philister, Arch-Philistine. [...] At present the literary Philistine seldom shows, never parades, himself in Germany; and when he does appear, he is in the last stage of emaciation.
- Not only was he [Heinrich Heine] not one of Mr. [Thomas] Carlyle's "respectable" people, he was profoundly disrespectable; and not even the merit of not being a Philistine can make up for a man's being that.
philistineadj/ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/
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derogatoryIgnorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.
- [Robert] Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine.
- Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. But in regard to philistine vulgarity there is no intrinsic difference between Palearctic manners and Nearctic manners.
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