English Dictionary

épater le bourgeois

動詞

文語

(literary) To scandalize, provoke the middle class.

日本語の意味

中産階級を驚かせる / 中産階級を挑発する / ブルジョワジーを衝撃にさらす

The avant-garde playwright aimed to épater le bourgeois with a final scene that left the audience outraged.

前衛的な劇作家は、観客を憤慨させる最後の場面で中産階級を愕然とさせることを狙った。

意味（1）

(literary) To scandalize, provoke the middle class.

All that was needed were the heroes willing to act out the fantasies the public now accepted as reality: the hero, as hedonist, who dares to do in public what the public wants to see. It was épater les bourgeois as a bourgeois calling.