词汇 | arriviste |
释义 | arriviste noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /ˌær.iːˈviːst/ us /ˌer.iːˈviːst/ a person who is trying to move into a higher class in society一心想发迹者;削尖脑袋向上爬的人 Synonym parvenuformaldisapproving Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob bougie bourgeois gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom heap petty bourgeois pleb plebby plebeian the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class Examples of arrivistearriviste His tormenters are usually untrustworthy temptresses, though occasionally they're authority figures who judge him as a criminal trespasser or a cultural arriviste. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was described by his contemporaries as a very fat, extremely boring, overwhelmingly ambitious arriviste. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is, after all, only a superficial, self-deluded arriviste. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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