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

• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• What nasty little snobs you all are
  你们全都是些可恶的势利小人。
• Snobs who despised their working-class son-in-law.
  看不起女婿当工人的很势利的人。
• 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。