/'bɔ:ʒwɑ:; [US] ,bʊər'ʒwɑ:; bur`ʒwɑ/
adj
1 of or relating to the property-owning middle class 中产阶级的; 关于中产阶级的.
2 (derog 贬)
(a) concerned with material possessions and social status 耽于名利的
*They've become very bourgeois since they got married. 他们结婚以後就一味追求物质享受和社会地位了.
(b) conventionally respectable; conservative 清高的; 保守的
*bourgeois tastes, attitudes, ideas, etc 高雅的趣味、风度、思想等.
(c) unimaginative; philistine 缺乏想像力的; 平庸的.
3 (in Marxist thought) of or relating to the bourgeoisie(2); capitalist （马克思学说中）资产阶级的, 关于资产阶级的, 资本家的, 资本主义的.

n (pl unchanged 复数不变) [C] (usu derog 通常作贬义) bourgeois person 中产阶级分子; 耽于名利的人; 清高的人; 平庸的人; 资产阶级分子.

adj
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French;Origin:'person who lives in a town', from Old French borjois, from borc 'town', from Latin burgus 'castle, town defended by a wall']
belonging to the middle class
　She came from a respectable bourgeois family.
　bourgeois morality
too interested in having a lot of possessions and a high position in society
　the Sixties backlash against bourgeois materialism
belonging to or typical of the part of society that is rich, educated, owns land etc, according to Marxism
→proletarian
>bourgeoisn[C]
→petty bourgeois