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A rude British word for someone you look down on as common, cheap, or from a lower social class. People often say it with a laugh, as a jab, not as a careful description — though actually the laugh does not make it kind. It can also mean someone with what the speaker thinks is bad taste: loud clothes, the 'wrong' food, the 'wrong' telly. It is very class-coded and very UK; Americans barely use it this way. You would not put it in a serious essay. Older English had a proud, neutral word for Rome's ordinary people; today's pleb has kept almost none of that pride.
俗人；沒格調的人（英式階級貶稱，常當玩笑）
組成A shortened form of plebeian (and of plebe): the long word for Rome's common people, clipped down to a short insult. Some people also hear it as taken back from the group word plebs.
原始詞典資料5 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。
plebnoun/plɛb/
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A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
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derogatoryA common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
- You're under my roof, you pleb.
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derogatoryslangA freshman cadet at a military academy.
- I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.
- At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.
plebadj/plɛb/
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Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
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derogatoryUndistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
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。