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snobbish

英 [ˈsnɒbɪʃ]

美 [ˈsnɑːbɪʃ]

adj.  势利的; 自命不凡的

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牛津词典

    adj.

    • 势利的;自命不凡的
      thinking that having a high social class is very important; feeling that you are better than other people because you are more intelligent or like things that many people do not like

      柯林斯词典

      • ADJ-GRADED (对自身社会地位、才智、品位等)过分自傲的,势利的
        If you describe someone assnobbish, you disapprove of them because they are too proud of their social status, intelligence, or taste.
        1. They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors...
          他们非常势利,不喜欢智力和社会地位不如自己的人。
        2. I'd expected her to be snobbish but she was warm and friendly.
          我原以为她会非常势利,但她却非常热情和友好。

      英英释义

      adj

      • befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
          Synonym:clannishcliquishclubbysnobby

        双语例句

        • As a class, it was exclusionary and hence tolerant of social prejudice, if not often downright snobbish.
          作为一个阶层,它非常排外,因此即使并不经常表现出赤裸裸的势利,至少是能够容忍社会偏见的存在的。
        • These people are hellishly snobbish.
          这些人势利极了。
        • Society is hopelessly snobbish, and this fact of your extraction may make an appreciable difference to its acceptance of you as my wife, after I have made you the well-read woman that I mean to make you.
          社会的势利是没有办法了,我要按照我的意思让你变成一个博学的女子,然后再做我的妻子就能被人接受了,你的德贝维尔后裔的身分也要变得大不一样了。
        • There is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish.
          任何东西都可以引起人的势利感。
        • I left the party without telling the host, for I couldn't put up with these snobbish people.
          我没有告诉主人就离开了晚会,我无法忍受那些势利小人。
        • I was too grand; too snobbish, even, he said, sharply resentful.
          我太傲慢、太势利、甚至于他说过于愤世嫉俗了。
        • I didn't say so though; I just told her I didn't want to study with some snobbish kids who surely had no idea what real life was like.
          不过我没说这些话,我只是告诉她,我不想和一群对真正的生活是什么样子都完全不了解的势利的小孩们一起学习。
        • My brother is very snobbish about cars.
          我弟弟很讲究汽车档次。
        • They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors
          他们非常势利,不喜欢智力和社会地位不如自己的人。
        • Everyone was annoyed by his snobbish attitude.
          所有的每个人都对他势利的态度反感。