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

• 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。
• 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。
• I want you to know nice people, and they are fearful snobs.
  我让你认识一些上流人士，他们都是势利鬼。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”