bohemian

英美[bo'him??n]

GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?bohemians;

bohemian 波西米亞式，放蕩不羈

來自中歐古國名Bohemia。Boii, 民族名。-hem, 家，同home. 過去一種謬誤認(rèn)為吉普賽人來自這里，因此就有了放蕩不羈的意思。

bohemian (n.): "a gypsy of society," 1848, from French bohemién (1550s), from the country name (see Bohemia). The modern sense is perhaps from the use of this country name since 15c. in French for "gypsy" (they were wrongly believed to have come from there, though their first appearance in Western Europe may have been directly from there), or from association with 15c. Bohemian heretics. It was popularized by Henri Murger's 1845 story collection "Scenes de la Vie de Boheme," the basis of Puccini's "La Bohème." Used in English 1848 in Thackary's "Vanity Fair."
The term 'Bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gipsey, no matter in what language he speaks, or what city he inhabits .... A Bohemian is simply an artist or littérateur who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art. ["Westminster Review," 1862]

1. We splurged on Bohemian glass for gifts, and for ourselves.: 我們花了很多錢買波希米亞玻璃制品送人和自用。

4. After a very proper upbringing he chose to lead the Bohemian life of an artist.: 他受過正統(tǒng)的教育,卻立意過著藝術(shù)家我行我素的生活.

5. When he was a student he led a bohemian life.: 當(dāng)他還是個學(xué)生的時候,他就過著放蕩不羈的生活.