| 词汇 | inverted-snobbery |
| 释义 | inverted snobbery noun[ U ] UKdisapprovinguk /ɪnˌvɜː.tɪd ˈsnɒb.ər.i/ us /ɪnˌvɝː.t̬ɪd ˈsnɑː.bɚ.i/ behaviour and opinions that are typical of an inverted snob: 倒转势利 Your inverted snobbery is showing.你的倒转势利显露出来了。 It's often inverted snobbery - people look at you and think ugh, posh school and Oxford.这往往是倒转势利——人们看着你时会想到，唉，豪华学校和牛津出来的。 See inverted snob Indeed, today a sort of inverted snobbery operates, so accents either have to be regional or a curiously bland "Estuary English". It's not uncommon among musicians to find inverted snobbery or even envy towards those whose talents might be said to be disproportionate to their incomes and their audiences. An outbreak of inverted snobbery has gripped the barbecue-diners of Sydney. They're investigating their family trees in the hope of finding a convicted felon in the branches. The problem with inverted snobbery is that it tends to celebrate the wrong kind of working-class culture: the non-working kind, in fact. Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petty bourgeois pleb plebby plebeian the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class |
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