英语词汇“Prufrockian”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Prufrockian

释义

Prufrockian, a.|pruːˈfrɒkɪən|
[f. the name of J. Alfred Prufrock, the central character of T. S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917), + -ian.]
Resembling or characteristic of the timid, passive Prufrock or his world of middle-class conformity and unfulfilled aspirations.
1977L. Gordon Eliot's Early Years iii. 62 It is a logical, if extreme, answer to the Prufrockian world of ridiculous conformity.1979S. Weintraub London Yankees x. 357 A middle-aged man..confesses his understanding..in Prufrockian terms.1981N. Polk in W. Faulkner Sanctuary (Afterword) 297 Horace Benbow..is an effete, timorous, Prufrockian figure who wallows in a fashionable and literary sort of nihilism.1989Sunday Times 25 June g3/3 He is not really Prufrockian. After Oxford he got a lectureship at Uppsala, where emancipated Swedish women ‘sorted him out’ sexually with a directness that would have horrified Prufrock.

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