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burghers
市民；中产者
burghers is the plural of burgher.
核心释义
常含贬义，指殷实而自满的中产阶级人士。
A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class; also a prosperous, often complacent middle-class citizen.
- 1.
自治市或城镇的公民,尤指属于中产阶级的公民。
A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- 2.
斯里兰卡的混血族群成员,为欧洲殖民者与当地人的后裔。
A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.
- 3.
富有的社区成员；中产阶级公民(可能带有自满之意)。
A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
伯格人；斯里兰卡混血族群；自治市或城镇的公民,尤指属于中产阶级的公民。；斯里兰卡的混血族群成员,为欧洲殖民者与当地人的后裔。；富有的社区成员；中产阶级公民(可能带有自满之意)。；公民
用法In use
The wealthy burgher funded the construction of a new market square.
用法提示：burgher 在此句中作主语，指一个市民，强调其社会地位。
In medieval times, burghers often held significant political power in their towns.
用法提示：burghers 是复数形式，作主语，泛指市民阶层。
The burgher's son decided to become a merchant rather than a knight.
用法提示：burgher's 是名词所有格形式，作定语，表示所属关系。
the burghers of [place]
用于指特定城镇的市民。
The burghers of York protested the new tax.
约克市的市民抗议新税。
a prosperous burgher
常与形容词连用，描述市民的社会地位或财富。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- respectable burgher
- 体面的市民
- The respectable burgher objected to the noise from the new nightclub.这位体面的市民反对新夜总会传来的噪音。
- solid burgher
- 殷实可靠的市民
- He was a solid burgher who paid his taxes on time.他是个殷实可靠的市民，按时纳税。
- proud burgher
- 自豪的市民；自满的中产者
- The proud burgher boasted of his family's long history in the town.这位自豪的市民夸耀其家族在镇上的悠久历史。
- wealthy burgher
- 富有的市民
- The wealthy burgher commissioned a portrait of his wife.这位富有的市民委托画师为妻子画了一幅肖像。
- burgher class
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
burgher 里藏着 burger（汉堡），想象一位城里中产市民悠闲地吃汉堡——burgher 就是自治市的中产公民。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：historical prose、literary narrative、official ethnic classification burgher 的正式度随含义而变化：指“自治市或城镇的市民（尤其中产阶级）”时，多用于历史或文学语境，属于书面正式用词；指斯里兰卡的伯格人（Burgher）这一混血族群时，则是正式的族裔称谓。日常口语中通常不会用到这个词，具体使用时需根据语境判断。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
Burger rhymes with burgher, and in non-rhotic accents the two are homophones: both are pronounced with the same stressed vowel (written /əː/ in the target) followed by /ɡə/. Gherkin is a useful spelling lookalike because it begins with the same -gher- sequence, but its pronunciation /ˈɡɜːkɪn/ does not rhyme. The -ger words eager, tiger, auger, and lager all end in -ger but have different vowels (/iː/, /aɪ/, /ɔː/, /ɑː/), so they are lookalikes, not rhymes.
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