snobs

英 [snɒbz] 美 [snɑbz]

n.  势利小人; 谄上欺下的人; 自以为优越的人; 自命高雅的人
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柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT 势利小人
    If you call someone a snob, you disapprove of them because they admire upper-class people and have a low opinion of lower-class people.
    1. Going to a private school had made her a snob...
      上私立学校后，她变得很势利。
    2. Kenneth is an arrogant, rude, social snob.
      肯尼斯是一个傲慢粗鲁只喜欢结交权贵的势利鬼。
  2. N-COUNT 自以为(在智力或品位方面)高人一等的人
    If you call someone a snob, you disapprove of them because they behave as if they are superior to other people because of their intelligence or taste.
    1. She was an intellectual snob.
      她自以为才智高人一等。
    2. ...a first class food snob.
      自认为饮食方面品位一流的家伙
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双语例句

  1. What nasty little snobs you all are
    你们全都是些可恶的势利小人。
  2. Why didn't you put on something smarter, since city-dwellers are such snobs?
    城里人眼浅，你干吗不穿好点儿？
  3. Advertising snobs said Steve Jobs never would have approved the cheesy and demeaning "genius" ads Apple ran during the London Olympics.
    自以为有品位的广告界人士声称，史蒂夫•乔布斯绝不会批准苹果在伦敦奥运会期间投放的那则低劣且自降身份的“Genius”广告。
  4. Margie Newman describes the event as "a sea of Mac-toting, smartphone-obsessed, new media snobs on a mission to know what is next."
    玛吉·纽曼形容这次盛典“到处是背着苹果电脑，痴迷于智能手机的新媒体牛人，他们在搜寻下一个技术热点。”
  5. Swiss doctors and the best that has been thought or said must be-the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs respectively of disease and culture.
    疾病或文化势利者各自朝思暮想的必定是瑞士医生或人们被称作是最好的一切。
  6. Tom had no handkerchief, and he looked upon boys who had as snobs.
    汤姆没有手绢，他鄙视那些有手绢的孩子们，把他们看作是故作姿态的势利小人。
  7. One shouldn't be too snobbish, as snobs are hated by all people.
    做人不能太势利眼了，嫌贫爱富的人让人痛恨。
  8. Snobs who despised their working-class son-in-law.
    看不起女婿当工人的很势利的人。
  9. The latter prize quickly inspired the tin can, more of a blessing than food snobs might acknowledge.
    后一个奖项很快便催生出听装罐头，它带来的好处比食品界那些假内行所认可的更多。
  10. It's because they were snobs.
    那是因为他们都是势利小人。
  11. Snobs are usually contemptuous of people they feel to be beneath them.
    势利者瞧不起他们认为地位在他们之下的人。
  12. Carlos: We haven't lost a thing except the chance to hobnob with a bunch of unhappy snobs.
    我们失去的只是与不开心的势利鬼交往的机会。
  13. I'll let the chocolate snobs miss out on it, it only means more for me.
    我会让巧克力的人错过它，它只意味着更多的对我。
  14. So why should I bother about what snobs think.
    因此，我不必烦恼那些势力的人所说的话。
  15. Western Wine snobs sniff that the Chinese do not know how to drink good wine, horrified by reports of red wine being mixed with Coca-Cola or being knocked back in one.
    西方葡萄酒“行家”哂笑中国人不懂得怎样品味好酒，听说中国人用可口可乐【似乎应该是雪碧】兑红酒、动不动干杯豪饮，他们大惊失色。
  16. She had no ancestors and thought people who had were snobs.
    她没有荣耀的祖先，并认为有荣耀祖先的人都是些仗势欺人的人。
  17. He always looked down his nose at snobs.
    他一向瞧不起势利小人。
  18. All men are snobs about something.
    人人都有势利之处。
  19. Why does everyone treat me as if I were one of these stupid snobs?
    为什么每个人都把我当成愚蠢的势利小人？
  20. Some Western snobs expressed contempt for oriental art without reason.
    西方一些势利小人毫无理由地看不起东方艺术。
  21. Scholarly analyses have turned into irrelevant extravagances for snobs.
    学术分析变成了那些自命不凡的人毫不相干的放纵言论。
  22. Academic snobs say such places hardly rank with MIT or Princeton, where Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve's chief, earned his spurs.
    学术上的势力之人说席根大学几乎不能与麻省理工学院或者美联储主席本伯南克成名之地普林斯顿大学相提并论。
  23. AMONG snobs and sommeliers, nothing can compete with wine in a glass bottle sealed with a cork stopper.
    对于自命不凡的品酒者和斟酒服务员而言，带有软木塞的瓶装葡萄酒是无与伦比的。
  24. I have to say, I don't have much time for the pseudy vocabulary of wine snobs.
    我得说我没有很多时间听那些自以为懂得酒的人的冒充鉴赏家的行话。
  25. I want you to know nice people, and they are fearful snobs.
    我让你认识一些上流人士，他们都是势利鬼。
  26. Musical snoBs often deride the harmonica as a serious instrument
    假充在音乐上内行的人经常嘲笑口琴作为严肃乐器的事实
  27. Investors can be snobs, and usually such foolishness proves expensive.
    投资者可能会很势利，而通常这种愚蠢的眼光会让他们付出高昂的代价。
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