1. 1粗人;沒教養的人。

    A boor is a person — in older use, usually a man — who behaves in a very rude, way, with little care for other people’s feelings or for the small polite things in a room.

    A boor粗人(boor) is a person是一種人——in older use照舊式用法,usually a man通常指男人——who behaves in a very rude, clumsy way舉止非常粗魯、笨拙,with little care for other people’s feelings or for the small polite things in a room根本不在乎別人的感受,也不管房間裡那些小小的禮貌。

    It is a strong, slightly old-fashioned judgement of manners, not a word for someone who merely had a bad day.

    It is a strong, slightly old-fashioned judgement of manners這是對舉止的一種強烈、有點老派的評判,not a word for someone who merely had a bad day不是用來說某人只是那天心情不好。

    Though actually it first meant a farmer or country person, from Dutch (“peasant”). The meaning slid, as words about country people sometimes do, from “not city-polite” to “rude.” Calling a farmer a boor now would be unfair; the insult has moved to behaviour.

    Though actually不過事實上 it first meant a farmer or country person它最早指的是農夫或鄉下人,from Dutch boer (“peasant”)來自荷蘭文 boer(意思是「農民」)。The meaning slid這個意思漸漸偏移了,as words about country people sometimes do就像有些形容鄉下人的字常會這樣,from “not city-polite” to “rude.”從「不像城裡人那麼講究」變成「粗魯」。Calling a farmer a boor now would be unfair現在把農夫叫做 boor 並不公平;the insult has moved to behaviour這個罵人的意思已經轉移到行為上了。

    The South African English word (a farmer of Dutch roots) is the same Dutch word on a different road, and that one stayed closer to “farmer.”

    The South African English word Boer南非英語裡的 Boer(a farmer of Dutch roots,一個荷蘭根源的農夫) is the same Dutch word on a different road跟這個字是同一個荷蘭字走的不同路,and that one stayed closer to “farmer.”而那個字一直比較接近「農夫」的意思。

core核心畫面

組成Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant, farmer”). Doublet of Boer, and of rarer bauer and bower in the old “farmer” sense. The rude-person meaning grew later.

同家族的字

  • Boersame Dutch boer (“farmer”); Boer kept the farmer meaning
  • boorishadjective: like a boor

原始詞典資料4 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。

boornoun/bʊə/

  • 1

    A peasant.

    • Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
    • For all the rich array and goodly port and countenance of Corinius, he seemed but a very boor beside the Lord Brandoch Daha, and dearly did each hate the other.
  • 2

    A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.

  • 3

    A yokel, country bumpkin.

  • 4

    An uncultured person; a vulgarian.

    • I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.

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