Brahmin
Brahmin 英 [ˈbrɑ:mɪn] 美 ['brɑmɪn]
n. 婆罗门
名词复数:brahmins
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- n. 婆罗门
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1. There are many castes in India, the highest being the Brahmin (intellectual).
印度有许多等级，最高级是婆罗门（知识分子）。
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2. Mitthu, who was a fastidious Brahmin and refused to let people who she suspected of eating buffalo meat into her kitchen, realized she has overlooked this point.
米绨是个挑剔的婆罗门，不允许被她怀疑吃过水牛肉的人进入厨房，凯蒂意识到她忽略了这一点。
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3. Though he was the son of a Brahmin priest, and knew the teachings, anyone asking him for deeper philosophy would get a smirk in reply, or a scrap of his famously broken English.
虽然他出身于印度上流阶级的婆罗门教士家庭，熟谙教义与理论，但如果有任何人向他请教更深刻的哲学理论，他只会答以一抹嗤笑，或是用他出名的破英文应付个三言两语。
- Brahmin (n.) also Brahman, "member of the highest priestly Hindu caste," late 14c., Bragman, from Sanskrit brahmana-s, from brahman- "prayer," also "the universal soul, the Absolute," which is of uncertain origin. Related to Brahma. Figurative meaning "member of Boston's upper class" is from 1823.
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