snobbery

英 [ˈsnɒbəri]

美 [ˈsnɑːbəri]

n.  势利态度(或行为); 自以为优越的态度(或行为)

复数：snobberies　

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Collins.1 / BNC.18786 / COCA.22186

牛津词典

noun

• 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

柯林斯词典

• 势利态度;势利眼
  Snobberyis the attitude of a snob.

英英释义

noun

• the trait of condescending to those of lower social status
  Synonym:snobbismsnobbishness

双语例句

• 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。
• She hates the snobbery of the chattering classes.
  她憎恨闲聊阶层的势利。
• Her novel is a satire on social snobbery.
  她的小说是描写势利小人的讽刺作品。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。