carpetbagger

noun

1. （在知名度不高的地区参加竞选因而不受当地欢迎的）外来政客
   a politician who tries to be elected in an area where he or she is not known and is therefore not welcome
2. （美国内战后去南方）投机钻营的北方人
   a person from the northern states of the US who went to the South after the Civil War in order to make money or get political power

1. N-COUNT (到自以为会得势的地方参加竞选的)外来政客，提包客
   If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
   1. He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known.
      他来到华盛顿时，不是以寻常的外来政客的身份,而是作为一位名人。

1. He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known.
   他来到华盛顿时，不是以寻常的外来政客的身份，而是作为一位名人。
2. Who are you calling a carpetbagger.
   你在说谁是投机家？

noun

1. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
   1. after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south