Babbitt

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE Online朗文 5++Bab·bitt /ˈbæbət/  a book by Sinclair Lewis about a businessman called George Babbitt who lives in a small US town. Babbitt is regarded as a boring man, because he thinks only about his own business and his position in local society, and he is not interested in other things in life.

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Babbitt
Bab‧bitt /ˈbæbət, ˈbæbɪt/
a book by Sinclair Lewis about a businessman called George Babbitt who lives in a small US town. Babbitt is regarded as a boring man, because he thinks only about his own business and his position in local society, and he is not interested in other things in life.

Bab·bittBrE /ˈbæbɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbæbɪt/ 🔊 noun (NAmE) a person who is satisfied with a narrow set of values and thinks mainly about possessions and making money 巴比特式人物（满足于一套狭隘的价值观、只关心财富和赚钱） ORIGIN From the name of the main character in the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. 源自辛克莱 · 刘易斯的小说《巴比特》中主人公的名字。