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Un burgués es un filisteo satisfecho, un vulgarian con pretensiones.
A bourgeois is a smug philistine, a dignified vulgarian.
En inglés, vulgarian viene a ser sinónimo de filisteo: lo que se señala en el vulgarian no es tanto el convencionalismo del filisteo cuanto la vulgaridad de algunas de sus ideas adquiridas.
"Vulgarian" is more or less synonymous with "philistine": the stress in a vulgarian is not so much on the conventionalism of a philistine as on the vulgarity of some of his conventional notions.
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