demi-monde
noun [ C usually singular ] uk/ˌdem.iˈmɒnd/ us/ˈdem.iˌmɑːnd/
（行为不被接受为正常或道德正确的人群）不入流社会
a group of people who live and behave in ways that are not traditionally accepted as normal or morally correct
He descended into the demi-monde of alcohol and drugs. 他沉沦到酗酒吸毒的不入流社会中。
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- He mixed with the bohemian demi-monde and ended up as the avant-garde publisher of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
- Back in the 60s and 70s, she was a feature of London's demi-monde, an exotic name on the nightclub circuit, linked with a string of rock stars.
- What lies beneath the cardboard veneer of Vegas glamour is a demi-monde of strippers, pornographers, drug dealers, waifs and runaways.
- The director was a doyen of the shabby demi-monde of London's arts world in the Sixties and Seventies.