英:[b'rʌmɪdʒəm]
美:[b'rʌmɪdʒəm]
英:[b'rʌmɪdʒəm]
美:[b'rʌmɪdʒəm]
Noun
1. a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center
Adjective
1. cheap and showy;
"a cheap Brummagem imitation"
"廉价而华而不实",来自1829年的一个名词,该名词源自于1800年时为伯明翰(Birmingham)的粗俗发音,指的是在该地大批生产的物品。此词还让人联想到伯明翰旧时因造假而声名狼藉的名声。
alteration of Birmingham, England, the source in the 17th century of counterfeit groats
The first known use of brummagem was in 1679
1 That 's all very pretty, Jim," called out Frobisher, "but let me observe it's a very Brummagem style of thing, after all.
2 We never dreamed that our ideal England was dead and buried, that the actual England was not the marble goddess of our idolatry, but a poor Brummagem image, coarse lacquer-ware and tawdry paint!
3 There's Mr. Joseph Brummagem, now, fancy my having to kneel at his feet, and take his measure!
4 It was at the time of the Conquest the manor of Bermingeham, or, as the Midland English prefer to pronounce it, "Brummagem."
5 I’m a recognised Corinthian, too: take my liquor with old Fred, and go round with the Brummagem Bantam and Jack Bosb——....
6 There 's a Brummagem fellow driving him through Wales,—a bagman,—and he takes him a turn now and then for the county stakes that offer.
7 This here little dog once belonged to a gemman who lived at Hands worth, just outside of Brummagem.
8 Billingsgate sways our big swells, Talent plays Brummagem Cad.
9 Miss Riley gave a reproachful look and shrug at the vulgar mention of a "fi'penny bit," which Murphy purposely said to shock her "Brummagem gentility."
10 I had met one before once, dressed as a countryman, and talking Brummagem Yorkshire.
11 Occasionally one is seen whose rig is so neat he might have stepped out of a bandbox, but, though he is an ornamental mariner, he is not a Brummagem one.
12 Beneath this is a "New Home" sewing machine, a Brummagem bedstead, and a small trunk, made burglar-proof by innumerable bands and fastenings of bright tin, or even gilt wall-paper.
13 O Brummagem Joseph, my boy, will you halt on Your sturdy, but scarce diplomatical way, And take from an ancient disciple of Walton A few friendly hints about patience and "play"?
14 Then came out the "Brummagem" feature of the case; showing us how the gold setting that he was preparing—perforating and filing—was to be backed by a blue stone.
15 A Brummagem Gothic house is frequently furnished and ornamented within in what is called "a chaste Greek style," and vice vers�.
16 Similarly the Tory opponents of the Bill were nicknamed "Anti-Birminghams" or "Brummagems."
17 This farmer had a big, savage bulldog, wot he had bought from a butcher in Brummagem; the dog’s name was Turk.
18 But as I was saying, I and this Jack Bosbury, and the Brummagem Bantam—a very pretty light-weight, sir—drank seven bottles of Burgundy to the three of us inside the eighty minutes.
19 It gave me a turn to hear you translating 'Punica fides' into Brummagem wares just now.
20 That he should take the first opportunity of getting to Brummagem, though he was afraid that he should not be able to get into his former place owing to his ungrateful behaviour.
1 伯明罕
2 贱的
3 赝造的
4 假
base artificial affected dummy counterfeit unnatural unreal bogus untrue lying Dud pseudo untruthful supposititious pseudo- pasteboard flash fake paste straw mock mimic painted dummy bum bastard counterfeit bogus untrue sham spoof phony assumed dud spurious shoddy snide pseudo duff adulterate phoney pasteboard hyped-up factitious hokey pinchbeck supposititious gotup pseud- pseudo-
10 贱
13 假的
base artificial affected dummy counterfeit unnatural unreal bogus untrue lying Dud pseudo untruthful supposititious pasteboard flash fake paste straw mock mimic painted dummy bum bastard counterfeit bogus untrue sham spoof phony assumed dud spurious shoddy snide duff adulterate phoney pasteboard hyped-up factitious hokey pinchbeck supposititious gotup
14 仿造的
15 冒充
near fake would-be shoddy pseudo soi-disant supposititious pose sham masquerade affect salt simulate imitate personate
18 伯明翰的