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
snob的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 势利小人
  If you call someone asnob, 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。
• N-COUNT 自以为(在智力或品位方面)高人一等的人
  If you call someone asnob, 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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• What nasty little snobs you all are
  你们全都是些可恶的势利小人。
• 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？
• Snobs who despised their working-class son-in-law.
  看不起女婿当工人的很势利的人。
• 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。
• It's because they were snobs.
  那是因为他们都是势利小人。
• 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。
• 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。
• All men are snobs about something.
  人人都有势利之处。