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？
• 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。
• All men are snobs about something.
  人人都有势利之处。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• The latter prize quickly inspired the tin can, more of a blessing than food snobs might acknowledge.
  后一个奖项很快便催生出听装罐头，它带来的好处比食品界那些假内行所认可的更多。
• 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。
• Western Wine snobs sniff that the Chinese do not know how to drink good wine, horrified by reports of red wine being mixed with Coca-Cola or being knocked back in one.
  西方葡萄酒“行家”哂笑中国人不懂得怎样品味好酒，听说中国人用可口可乐【似乎应该是雪碧】兑红酒、动不动干杯豪饮，他们大惊失色。