philistine

詳細解釋：

Phil.is.tine

n.（名詞）
A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 2th centuryb.c.
非利士人：約公元前 2世紀居住在非利士地古城的愛琴海民族的一支

A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values.
平庸的人：一個自以為是、愚昧無知的人，尤指被認為不懂藝術和文學的中產階段的人們
One who lacks knowledge in a specific area.
門外漢：缺乏某一特定領域知識的人，某科知識的門外漢
adj.（形容詞）
Of or relating to ancient Philistia.
非利士人的：屬於或關於非利士人的
Often philistine Boorish; barbarous:
常作 philistine 庸俗人的：鄉巴佬的；野蠻的，粗野的：
例句：
.our plastic, violent culture, with its philistine tastes and hunger for novelty.(Lloyd Rose)
.我們易受影響的扭曲的文化，趣味低級而且缺乏新穎性.(勞埃德·羅斯)

來源：
From Middle English Philistines [Philistines]
源自 中古英文 Philistines [非利士人]
from Late Latin Philistono
源自 後期拉丁語 Philistono
from Greek Philistinoi
源自 希臘語 Philistinoi
from Hebrew Pμliôtôm
源自 希伯來語 Pμliôtôm
from Pμleôet [Philistia]
源自 皮爾 [非利士地]

<注釋>It has never been good to be a Philistine.Samson, Saul, and David in the Bible helped bring the Philistines into prominence because they were such prominent opponents.Even though the Philistines have long since disappeared,their name has lived on in the Old Testament.The English name for them,Philistines, which goes back through Late Latin and Greek to Hebrew, is first found in Middle English,wherePhilistiens, the ancestor of our word, is recorded in a work composed before 325. Beginning in the 7th centuryphilistine was used as a common noun usually in the plural to refer to various groups considered the enemy,such as literary critics.In Germany in the same centuryit is said that in a memorial at Jena for a student who had been killed in a town-gown quarrel,the minister preached a sermon from the text .Philister über dir Simson! [The Philistines be upon thee, Samson!],.the words of Delilah to Samson after she attempted to render him powerless before his Philistine enemies.From this usage it is said that German students came to usePhilister, the German equivalent of Philistine, to denote nonstudents and hence uncultured or materialistic people.Both usages were picked up in English in the early 9th century.
做非利士人從來沒有好處。《聖經》中的參孫、索爾和大衛使非利士人出名是因為他們是很優秀的對手。儘管非利士人已消失很久了，他們的名字卻仍存在於《舊約》當中。他們的英文名稱Philistines 可由晚期拉丁語和希臘語追溯到希伯來語， 是在中世紀英文中首先發現的，其中我們所用詞的前身Philistines 記載在一部325年前的著作中。 7世紀以來，Philistine 被用作普通名詞並且常以複數形式出現， 意指被認為是敵人的各種團體，如文學批評家。在同一世紀的德國，據說在耶拿舉行的紀念一名在市民和大學生爭執中被殺的學生的紀念會上，牧師從.［非利士人比你強，參孫!］.中選取了一段做布道，就是迪萊勒在試圖使參孫在他的非利士手面前變得軟弱無力後說的那些話。這段話的用法中可見德國學生開始使用philister 作為 philistine 的德文替代語， 意指不是學生因此也就是沒有文化以及不務實的人。這兩種用法在9世紀早期的英文中均能找到