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单词 Grub Street
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Definition of Grub Street in English:

Grub Street

noun
  • Used in reference to a world or class of impoverished journalists and writers.

    格拉布街(指穷愁潦倒的报人和作家圈);潦倒文人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Are they not trying to get the sales of the Grub Street merchants without their street-vulgarity - the one jumped-up, the other dumbed-down?
    • Walpole's hegemony inevitably drew the full fire of Grub Street on his personal position.
    • It could have been eighteenth-century Grub Street.
    • All right-thinking lesbians will complain at the close-mindedness shown by the Grub Street sisterhood.
    • Taking a swipe at Grub Street productions of the time, the ‘mission-statement’ language reads like a parody of the real Foundling Hospital's raison d'être.
    • Clearly, not one to mince his titles, this neologism was spotlit by the hacks of Grub Street as the most secretive of sins, the product of a furtive imagination within an autarkic existence.
    • He assented to being a ‘man of letters’ but always made sure to keep ‘one foot in Grub Street.’
    • With the passive agreement of the American press, she managed to escape the attention of the American paparazzi and the US equivalent of Grub Street hacks.
    • It shields her from the intellectual compromises monetary need imposes on the writer, from the necessity of fawning before editors or potential patrons, from becoming a harried Grub Street hack.
    • He shows how Venice in the sixteenth century had its own Grub Street, like London in the seventeenth and Paris in the eighteenth century.
    • In the Grub Street of the twenty-first century, books are traded on less and less material, and almost never on complete manuscripts.
    • Meanwhile, literary hacks and Grub Street writers produced popular pot boilers for the masses.
    • But Grub Street, where Gray is concerned, is in shouting distance of Arcadia.
    • To be sure, there's a lot of cobbling going on in the cyber Grub Street but that's the price we pay for mass production.
    • His line was that there are people living like parasites in Grub Street while other clean-limbed, honourable fellows are trying to improve the world.
    • This is also an envy free zone because I am so far removed from Grub Street with its horrible toxins.
    • Many of these writers worked in the shadowy borderland between Academia, Bohemia, and Grub Street.
    • No longer will Grub Street scribblers have to stare wild-eyed out the window not knowing where the next sentence is coming from.
    • It could be that Stanley was being paid by the word - a not uncommon arrangement on Grub Street, where, lo these many years, he has made his residence.
    • Also, and perhaps most importantly, she posed no threat to the denizens of Grub Street.

Origin

The name of a street (later Milton Street) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by such authors in the 17th century.

Definition of Grub Street in US English:

Grub Street

nounˈɡrəb ˌstrētˈɡrəb ˌstrit
  • Used in reference to a world or class of impoverished journalists and writers.

    格拉布街(指穷愁潦倒的报人和作家圈);潦倒文人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is also an envy free zone because I am so far removed from Grub Street with its horrible toxins.
    • He shows how Venice in the sixteenth century had its own Grub Street, like London in the seventeenth and Paris in the eighteenth century.
    • In the Grub Street of the twenty-first century, books are traded on less and less material, and almost never on complete manuscripts.
    • Clearly, not one to mince his titles, this neologism was spotlit by the hacks of Grub Street as the most secretive of sins, the product of a furtive imagination within an autarkic existence.
    • Many of these writers worked in the shadowy borderland between Academia, Bohemia, and Grub Street.
    • But Grub Street, where Gray is concerned, is in shouting distance of Arcadia.
    • With the passive agreement of the American press, she managed to escape the attention of the American paparazzi and the US equivalent of Grub Street hacks.
    • His line was that there are people living like parasites in Grub Street while other clean-limbed, honourable fellows are trying to improve the world.
    • Walpole's hegemony inevitably drew the full fire of Grub Street on his personal position.
    • Are they not trying to get the sales of the Grub Street merchants without their street-vulgarity - the one jumped-up, the other dumbed-down?
    • No longer will Grub Street scribblers have to stare wild-eyed out the window not knowing where the next sentence is coming from.
    • To be sure, there's a lot of cobbling going on in the cyber Grub Street but that's the price we pay for mass production.
    • Also, and perhaps most importantly, she posed no threat to the denizens of Grub Street.
    • He assented to being a ‘man of letters’ but always made sure to keep ‘one foot in Grub Street.’
    • Meanwhile, literary hacks and Grub Street writers produced popular pot boilers for the masses.
    • It shields her from the intellectual compromises monetary need imposes on the writer, from the necessity of fawning before editors or potential patrons, from becoming a harried Grub Street hack.
    • All right-thinking lesbians will complain at the close-mindedness shown by the Grub Street sisterhood.
    • It could have been eighteenth-century Grub Street.
    • It could be that Stanley was being paid by the word - a not uncommon arrangement on Grub Street, where, lo these many years, he has made his residence.
    • Taking a swipe at Grub Street productions of the time, the ‘mission-statement’ language reads like a parody of the real Foundling Hospital's raison d'être.

Origin

The name of a street (later Milton Street) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by such authors in the 17th century.

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