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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• It's because they were snobs.
  那是因为他们都是势利小人。