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 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？
• He always looked down his nose at snobs.
  他一向瞧不起势利小人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Musical snoBs often deride the harmonica as a serious instrument
  假充在音乐上内行的人经常嘲笑口琴作为严肃乐器的事实
• 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？
• 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。
• Snobs who despised their working-class son-in-law.
  看不起女婿当工人的很势利的人。
• 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。