Vulgar

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.

(a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.

(a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.

(n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.

(n.) The vernacular, or common language.

弗朗西丝编辑

• The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Just as they always dovery vulgar. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Hard, loud, vain and vulgar, her mind and body alike seemed brazen and imperishable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In short, not altogether liking the words my dear, as they had been applied to me by her husband, she thought it monstrous vulgar! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The vulgar are commonly guided by the first, and wise men by the second. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• These latter pupils were not the only young men of promise whose vulgar faith and patriotism Socrates destroyed, to leave nothing in its place. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• But that kind of thing is rather--vulgar, isn't it? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I think they are, without exception, the most vulgar girls in Highbury. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• We would simply suggest that the practice of vulgar young boys in the gallery of shying peanuts and paper pellets at the tigers, and saying Hi-yi! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It spread rather in spite of than because of the concessions that it made to vulgar imaginations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This phaenomenon is analogous to the system of pride and humility above-explained, which may seem so extraordinary to vulgar apprehensions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I wish you would not be so vulgar, Fred. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Hermione felt injured, that all her good intention, all her offering, only left the other woman in vulgar antagonism. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And he decided that, according to the vulgar phrase, he had done it 'accidentally on purpose. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The date was towards the end of June, or the beginning of July, and the name (in my opinion a remarkably vulgar one) was Fanny. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• And now, Socrates, as you rebuked the vulgar manner in which I praised astronomy before, my praise shall be given in your own spirit. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• This is one small sample of the vast accumulation of vulgar marvels that presently sprang up about the memory of Gautama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Vitruvius was far from sharing the view of Archimedes that art which was connected with the satisfaction of daily needs was necessarily ignoble and vulgar. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Both philosophers and the vulgar suppose the first of these to have a distinct continued existence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I only know it has a very vulgar sound and I don't want to hear you using it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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