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

• He always looked down his nose at snobs.
  他一向瞧不起势利小人。
• 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。
• Carlos: We haven't lost a thing except the chance to hobnob with a bunch of unhappy snobs.
  我们失去的只是与不开心的势利鬼交往的机会。
• She had no ancestors and thought people who had were snobs.
  她没有荣耀的祖先，并认为有荣耀祖先的人都是些仗势欺人的人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Snobs who despised their working-class son-in-law.
  看不起女婿当工人的很势利的人。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。