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

• 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。
• 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。
• Her novel is a satire on social snobbery.
  她的小说是描写势利小人的讽刺作品。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。