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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• AMONG snobs and sommeliers, nothing can compete with wine in a glass bottle sealed with a cork stopper.
  对于自命不凡的品酒者和斟酒服务员而言，带有软木塞的瓶装葡萄酒是无与伦比的。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'll let the chocolate snobs miss out on it, it only means more for me.
  我会让巧克力的人错过它，它只意味着更多的对我。
• All men are snobs about something.
  人人都有势利之处。