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单词 Shavian
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Definition of Shavian in English:

Shavian

adjective ˈʃeɪvɪənˈʃeɪviən
  • Relating to or in the manner of George Bernard Shaw or his writings or ideas.

    萧伯纳的;萧伯纳式的;萧伯纳风格的;萧伯纳作品风格的

    their ceaseless flow of Shavian chatter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In true Shavian spirit, Kennedy passed the gauntlet: ‘Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not’.
    • It is conceivable that Douglas was the prototype for the part when the play was written, in 1894, a piece of Shavian mischievousness which would have had to have been concealed from the censor and public at the time of the production, in 1904.
    • Man and Superman is a tough play to mount, for its length, its changes of scenery, its elaborate Shavian philosophizings and unremitting cascades of iconoclastic wit.
    • In between, he had to contend with a Shavian academic who had come to regard the bearded, vegetarian dramatist as his personal property.
    • Beneath its satire on Anglo-Saxon and Irish attitudes and its assault on entrepreneurial capitalism lies a deep vein of grief that is quintessentially Shavian.
    • The hero of a nineteenth-century social novel, or of a Shavian play of ideas, might well be its author's mouthpiece, but the hero would also achieve victory within the work itself.
    • But a lot of criminals also live in poverty, and I don't hear anyone screaming Shavian imprecations about that.
    • Instead, I want to use it to revisit the Shavian thesis that the professional press has a higher claim than bloggers to the First Amendment and its subsidiary protections.
    • But, in addition to familiar Shavian reversal, the play also offers a testament to the power of faith - the willingness of the heroine, Lavinia, to sacrifice herself for God is a metaphor for Shaw's belief in socialism and the life force.
    • But when he impartially attacks the Englishman - ‘so clever in your foolishness and this Irishman so foolish in his cleverness ‘- you realise that the character of the visionary outsider is a revealing Shavian self-portrait.’
    • It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel, to grasp the Shavian reference.
noun ˈʃeɪvɪənˈʃeɪviən
  • An admirer of Shaw or his work.

    萧伯纳崇拜者;萧伯纳著作崇拜者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stoppard is a residualist romantic rather than a latter-day Shavian; his play is best in tracing the collapse of a dysfunctional marriage and the incremental humiliation of its hero.
    • The Devil, of course, defends those hedonistic amenities, whereas Juan, a true Shavian, wants none of them and heads for a thinker's Heaven.

Origin

From Shavius (Latinized form of Shaw) + -an.

Rhymes

avian, Batavian, Flavian, Moldavian, Moravian, Octavian, Scandinavian

Definition of Shavian in US English:

Shavian

adjectiveˈSHāvēənˈʃeɪviən
  • Relating to or in the manner of G. B. Shaw, his writings, or ideas.

    萧伯纳的;萧伯纳式的;萧伯纳风格的;萧伯纳作品风格的

    their ceaseless flow of Shavian chatter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is conceivable that Douglas was the prototype for the part when the play was written, in 1894, a piece of Shavian mischievousness which would have had to have been concealed from the censor and public at the time of the production, in 1904.
    • Instead, I want to use it to revisit the Shavian thesis that the professional press has a higher claim than bloggers to the First Amendment and its subsidiary protections.
    • In true Shavian spirit, Kennedy passed the gauntlet: ‘Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not’.
    • It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel, to grasp the Shavian reference.
    • Man and Superman is a tough play to mount, for its length, its changes of scenery, its elaborate Shavian philosophizings and unremitting cascades of iconoclastic wit.
    • In between, he had to contend with a Shavian academic who had come to regard the bearded, vegetarian dramatist as his personal property.
    • The hero of a nineteenth-century social novel, or of a Shavian play of ideas, might well be its author's mouthpiece, but the hero would also achieve victory within the work itself.
    • But when he impartially attacks the Englishman - ‘so clever in your foolishness and this Irishman so foolish in his cleverness ‘- you realise that the character of the visionary outsider is a revealing Shavian self-portrait.’
    • But, in addition to familiar Shavian reversal, the play also offers a testament to the power of faith - the willingness of the heroine, Lavinia, to sacrifice herself for God is a metaphor for Shaw's belief in socialism and the life force.
    • But a lot of criminals also live in poverty, and I don't hear anyone screaming Shavian imprecations about that.
    • Beneath its satire on Anglo-Saxon and Irish attitudes and its assault on entrepreneurial capitalism lies a deep vein of grief that is quintessentially Shavian.
nounˈSHāvēənˈʃeɪviən
  • An admirer of Shaw or his work.

    萧伯纳崇拜者;萧伯纳著作崇拜者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Devil, of course, defends those hedonistic amenities, whereas Juan, a true Shavian, wants none of them and heads for a thinker's Heaven.
    • Stoppard is a residualist romantic rather than a latter-day Shavian; his play is best in tracing the collapse of a dysfunctional marriage and the incremental humiliation of its hero.

Origin

From Shavius (Latinized form of Shaw) + -an.

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