英语单词 | upstart |
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英美音标 | 英 ['ʌpstɑːt] 美 ['ʌpstɑːrt] |
中文释义 | n.暴发户;傲慢自负之人 adj.暴富的;傲慢的 v.突然跳起 |
英语例句 | (1) He was a new upstart and a gentleman of the first head. (2) You can't marry that young upstart! (3) Lesson those upstart person with a over-confident mind. (4) He dreaded their upstart ambition. (5) Pacquiao was making Hatton look like an upstart amateur. |
中文例句 | (1) 他是个暴发户,是个新封的贵族。 (2) 你可不能嫁给那个年轻的暴发户! (3) 狠狠的修理自以为很款很有势的爆发户. (4) 他惧怕他们的狂妄野心。 (5) 帕奎奥弄得哈顿像个傲慢的业余拳手。 |
vocabulary简明 | An upstart is someone who's cocky and arrogant, and who doesn't show much respect for other people. |
vocabulary扩展 | There are many ways of starting up trouble — one is by being an upstart. Upstarts are people who are full of themselves and dismissive of others. Often, an upstart is a young person or newcomer. A new employee who acts like he knows more than everyone else is an upstart. An arrogant rookie on a sports team is an upstart. In the 1500s, upstart and start-up were both used to mean the same thing, "one newly risen in importance." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](初到某地或初出茅庐却)自命不凡的家伙 You can refer to someone as an upstart when they behave as if they are important, but you think that they are too new in a place or job to be treated as important. [disapproval]
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