Upstart
['ʌpstɑːt] or ['ʌpstɑrt]
解释:
(noun.) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class.
(noun.) an arrogant or presumptuous person.
整理:理查德--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.
(n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
(n.) The meadow saffron.
(a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.
录入:丽贝卡
同义词及近义词:
n. Parvenu, snob, mushroom, pretentious fellow, pretender to gentility.
格拉迪斯校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Plebeian, mushroom
ANT:Personage, {[pptrician]?}
校对:谢尔比
解释:
adj. (Milt.) suddenly raised to prominence or consequence characteristic of such pretentious and vulgar.—n. one who has suddenly risen from poverty or obscurity to wealth or power.—v.i. Upstart′ to start up suddenly.
录入:撒迦利亚
例句:
- Why, any upstart who has got neither blood nor position. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Alexander's feelings for Napoleon had always been of a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon as a rival, and despised him as an underbred upstart. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Or was he but a mere upstart man, of extraordinary genius, without strength of mind to know what he would be at? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- You've always been an upstart, and you've always been against me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- All I now ask, all your mother, Idris, requests is, that you will not see this upstart during the interval of one month. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- They saw one upstart pretender to empire succeed another with complete indifference. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I have quite a horror of upstarts. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
手打:曼弗雷德