dickensian

dickensian

美 [dɪˈkenziən] 　英 [dɪ'kenziən]

• adj.狄更斯文体的；具有狄更斯小说特点的；类似狄更斯笔下描述的
• 网络狄更斯学者；狄更斯风格；狄更斯式

英汉解释

adj.	1. typical of the novels of Charles Dickens or of 19th-century England as he described it

例句

Xinran also investigates Chinese orphanages, for many of which the word "Dickensian" would be totally inadequate.

欣然还调查过中国的许多孤儿院，对许多这种孤儿院来说，“狄更斯式的描述”是完全不合适的。

The film has been called "Dickensian" -- and freely borrows from Indian film traditions, right down to its closing dance number.

这部电影被称作“狄更斯式的作品”——并且自由地借用印度电影传统，直至闭幕舞蹈表演。

There have been sporadic strikes for years in Chinese factories, usually over Dickensian working conditions or unpaid salaries.

多年来，中国工厂发生过零星罢工，通常围绕狄更斯时代的恶劣工作条件，或者为了索讨欠薪。

The roar from this Dickensian forge in the port of Penang is part of a greater reverberation across Asia. Call it the China Effect.

槟城港口此类锻造工厂的繁荣是亚洲范围内一次更宏伟的交响曲的一部分，暂且称之为“中国效应”吧。

No Dickensian insights are necessary to appreciate the scale of human intervention in the nitrogen cycle.

在理解人类对氮循环的干扰力度方面，并非是杞人忧天。

There are also lots of good people with weird characteristics and behaviors in other novels of Dickensian.

具有怪异的性格和动作特征的好人在狄更斯其他小说中也还有很多。

And that's why I believe that the true Dickensian world is our world.

这就是为什么我相信真正的狄更斯的世界就是我们的世界。

IF YOU smoke, you will become a gruesome pariah with Dickensian teeth who abuses children and dies early and alone.

如果你吸烟，就会沦为狄更斯笔下长有丑陋牙齿的底层民众，他们虐待儿童并且早早地孤独死去。

While labor activists refer to Longhua as a sweatshop, it hardly has the look of Dickensian squalor the term connotes.

尽管劳动维权人士称龙华是“血汗工厂”，它看起来却丝毫不像这个词语让人联想起的小说家狄更斯笔下的肮脏悲惨。

To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.

为了开拓市场，典当商人正在试图摆脱他们过去阴暗的狄更斯时代的形象。

Such nightmares are worse in India, where the courts move with Dickensian speed, or in China, where the legal system is patchy.

这样的噩梦在法律流程运转缓慢的印度会变得更糟，或者在法律系统存在漏洞的中国也是如此。

Labour activists would argue, with some justification, that these are incremental improvements from a Dickensian base.

劳工维权人士将会辩称（这种观点不无道理），这些举措只是在狄更斯时代劳动条件的基础上作出了一些渐进改善。

The Dickensian view is that factories replaced a rural idyll with urban misery, poverty, pollution and illness.

在狄更斯的笔下，工厂以城市的苦难、贫穷、污染和疾病代替了农村的田园诗。

Conditions for the working class in China remain more akin to Dickensian England than a Marxian "worker's paradise. "

中国工人阶级的生存状况更接近于狄更斯时期的英格兰，而不是一个马克思式的工人天堂。

Peasants leave their homes and head to the cities, where they work in Dickensian factories for low wages.

农民离开家走进城市，为了微薄的工资在又苦又累的工厂工作。