épater le bourgeois

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To scandalize, provoke the middle class. literary
    — All that was needed were the heroes willing to act out the fantasies the public now accepted as reality: the hero, as hedonist, who dares to do in public what the public wants to see. It was épater les bourgeois as a bourgeois calling.

词形变化

épater la bourgeoisie alternative

词源

Borrowed from French épater le bourgeois (“amaze the bourgeois”).
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