"word-coiner," 1873, from Latin verbum "word" (see verb) + -arian. Coleridge (or the friend he was quoting) had used it earlier as an adjective, and with a different sense, in wishing for: "a verbarian Attorney-General, authorised to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word" (1830).
双语例句
1. Our maths teacher was a bully and a complete barbarian.
我们的数学老师是个坏蛋,一个彻头彻尾的野蛮人。
来自柯林斯例句
2. We need to fight this barbarian attitude to science.
我们需要与这种对待科学的野蛮态度作斗争。
来自柯林斯例句
3. barbarian invasions of the fifth century
五世纪时野蛮人的入侵
来自《权威词典》
4. The walled city was attacked by barbarian hordes.
那座有城墙的城市遭到野蛮部落的袭击.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.