Middle English (as an adjective used depreciatively to denote a person with different speech and customs): from Old French barbarien, from barbare, or from Latin barbarus(see barbarous)
英英释义网络释义
noun
1.a member of an uncivilized people
2.a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
3.without civilizing influences;
barbarian invaders
-barbarian
1 . 蛮族
do you forget my father took a barbarianas his queen ., 你忘了我父亲自己也娶了一个蛮族王后.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser . Fritz Leiber . a barbarian and master thief band together and bungle their way through encounters with assassin guilds , deadly sorcerers and scheming gods .一个野蛮人和老练的小偷搭伴而行,笨手笨脚地历经了一些暗杀者公会、致命的巫师和诡计多端的神制造的意外。
+using barbarians against barbarians
1 . 以夷制夷
... state against another...power against another)或者“以夷制夷”(play one barbarian state against another )都不允许挂在嘴边,因此便产生了以“低强度冲...2Set a thief to catch a thief译网情深 -... ... Saying is one thing and doing another. 说起来容易,作起来难。 Set a thief to catch a thief. 以夷制夷。