snobbery

noun

1. 势利态度（或行为）；自以为优越的态度（或行为）
   the attitudes and behaviour of people who are snobs
   1. intellectual snobbery
      智力上的自我优越感

1. 势利态度;势利眼
   Snobbery is the attitude of a snob.

1. Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery.
   伊莎贝尔对于任何关于她恃才傲物的暗示都迅速予以否认。
2. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery
   他被宠坏了，傲慢无礼，而且经常自命不凡。
3. Every snobbery demands of its, devotees unceasing efforts, a succession of sacrifices.
   每种势利感都要求其信徒作出不懈的努力，一个接一个的牺牲。
4. The American designer acquired a storied French country estate in the Loire Valley and decorated it to the nines, leaving out only the snobbery.
   这位美国设计师在卢瓦尔河谷买了一个多层法国田庄，把它装饰得十分完美，只是主人有点势利。
5.   but culturally we have a snobbery about lawyers being superior.
   但在文化上，我们有种律师才最高等的优越感。
6. This is all bourgeois snobbery against McDonald's, Mr Johnson said. I think they're fantastic.
   这是针对麦当劳的鄙俗的势利行为，约翰逊表示，我认为，它们很棒。
7. The fallacy works, too, as a driver of literary snobbery.
   此谬误也是文学上的势力现象产生的驱动力之一。
8. But I have just recently come to think how many meaningful friendships and relationships have I passed up on the basis of this crazy brand snobbery?
   但是最近我开始想，基于这种疯狂的“以商标取人”的标准，我错过了多少有意义的友谊或是别的关系？
9. The malefic influences, of this snobbery are rapidly spreading all over the world.
   这种势利的有害影响正迅速扩散到全世界。
10. Through the descriptions given in this excerpt, we can see the hypocrisy and snobbery of the religious man and the so-called philosopher.
    通过这一段中给出的描述，我们可以看出这位宗教人士和所谓的哲学家的虚伪与势利。
11. But it must be clearly understood that "Society," in that sense of the word, is merely one of a hundred Rings, and snobbery therefore only one form of the longing to be inside.
    但必须清楚了解的是，这种“上流社会”只是上百个圈子里的其中一个，因而“势利”也只是渴望进入这个圈子的其中一种形式而已。
12. She might have been delicious, Boylan's first love, Rudolph thought, tasting the profound joys of snobbery, but she sure didn't work on his accent.
    博伊兰头一个情人可能够味儿，鲁道夫想：从他话里听得出势利眼的权度快乐，但是她肯定没有帮助他纠正发音。
13. There is certainly not much social snobbery or job snobbery.
    确实，美国人不需要太多的在社会和工作上的奉承。
14. Because actually there's very little social snobbery in the United states.
    因为实际上美国只有很少的势力眼。
15. She accused me of snobbery because I sent my sons to a private school.
    她指责我势利，因为我送儿子上私立学校。
16. Perhaps it's pure snobbery.
    这大概纯粹是势利眼。
17. Marriage, religion, and parenthood received the same acid treatment as social snobbery and politics.
    婚姻、宗教、父母关系同社会上的势利和政治一样，在他笔下同样受到辛辣的讥讽。
18. She hates the snobbery of the chattering classes.
    她憎恨闲聊阶层的势利。
19. Her novel is a satire on social snobbery.
    她的小说是描写势利小人的讽刺作品。
20. Unfortunately, egalitarianism left a tremendous snobbery gap, since nobody could feel better than anybody else simply by reason of birth.
    不幸的是，既然没人能因出身而觉得自己比他人更好，平等主义就留下了一个巨大的势利鸿沟。
21. Though he had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery in Roosevelt.
    罗斯福有着出身贵族的自信满满，但却毫无趋炎附势的丑恶嘴脸。
22. They considered her behaviour a shameful piece of snobbery.
    他们认为她为人势利，行为可耻。
23. He had a definite strain of snobbery in him.
    他这个人明显有一股势利小人的气味。
24. Her snobbery has rendered her friendless.
    她的势利令她没有朋友。
25. Nobody said it aloud, but this smelled of snobbery: Aga-owners not wanting to mix with Aga-makers.
    虽然嘴上没明说，但这里面势利的气息却着实浓厚：用阿格炉的大财主不想和做阿格炉的小工人混在一起。
26. Perhaps writers, unlike actors and scientists, live in a world of inverted snobbery.
    或许作家不像演员和科学家那样，他们生活在一个相反的世界里。
27. The value of snobbery in general, its humanistic "point", consists in its power to stimulate activity.
    总的来说，势利感的价值，即它与人相关的意义在于它有能刺激行动的能力。
28. Adjectives that describe insincere humility, dissatisfaction, snobbery, courtesy to women, financial embarrassment, sadness, etc.
    描述虚情假意、牢骚不满、趋炎附势、对女士礼貌有加、经济窘迫、悲哀的形容词。
29. The dikes of imperial snobbery hold back a raging sea of color.
    势利的英帝国堤坝阻挡着狂怒的有色人种的海洋。

noun

1. the trait of condescending to those of lower social status

   Synonym:    snobbismsnobbishness