有评论认为，中国大陆至少有两本情趣典雅、适合高品位文化人阅读的人文杂志：《万象》和《书城》。日前，因资金短缺遭遇休刊变故的精英人文杂志《书城》和《万象》绝处逢生，再次出现在各大书店的柜台前。

        请看《中国日报》相关报道：Like the last knights¹ fighting a losing war, two Shanghai-based highbrow magazines Shu Cheng and Wan² Xiang have only recently published their first editions this year after financial difficulties forced a six-month suspension.

        When they temporarily stopped publication, the press wrote eulogies³ on China's last "intellectual magazines," tailored to the reading tastes of the cultural elite⁴.

        由报道可知，适合高品位文化人阅读的精英杂志可用“intellectual magazine”或“highbrow magazine”来表示，这里着重谈一下单词highbrow。与intellectual相比，highbrow的语义范围更具体，更侧重形容有“高深”学问或文化素养的人，如They only attend highbrow events such as the ballet or the opera.（他们只欣赏高雅艺术，如芭蕾和歌剧。）

       在实际运用中，highbrow有时也用来指“自炫渊博的知识分子”，这时，他的贬抑色彩不言而喻。与highbrow相对的一个词是lowbrow（庸俗、粗俗、教养浅薄的人）。