how to say “附庸风雅”in English？ ??附庸means dependency, for example, many small countries follow USA. 风雅is the earliest poetry more than 2000years. So it means someone is not really love poetry or othe

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how to say “附庸风雅”in English？ ??附庸means dependency, for example, many small countries follow USA. 风雅is the earliest poetry more than 2000years. So it means someone is not really love poetry or other art, Just show off or to suck up to other people in high position. For example, I saw a lot of poetry in an expensive restaurant, so I thought of this word and suspected It's a way to earn money especially from your rich foreigners,lol

2010年12月10日 15:22

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2010年12月10日

附庸风雅 (of landlords, merchants, etc.) who attempt to mingle with scholarly men and pose as a lover of culture as a means of fawning those who are of a higher social status or who are more educated

2010年12月11日

Dictionary.com ------------------------ dilettante –noun 1. a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler. 2. a lover of an art or science, esp. of a fine art. World English Dictionary ------------------------ —n 1. a person whose interest in a subject is superficial rather than professional 2. a person who loves the arts Definition #2 from both sources, Eliot. When correcting people you should first get your facts straight. Keep up the good work! :D

2010年12月12日

my dictionary also translates it as "to pose as a lover of culture". from the chinese, it seems to convery something like "a lower class person trying to be like an upper class".. i know exactly what situation this describes but i dont think we have such a nice saying for it in english. a lower class man man with lower education level, trying to pretend like he's educated. is that right?

2010年12月10日