| 词汇 | posh |
| 释义 | posh adjective uk /pɒʃ/ us /pɑːʃ/ B2informal (of places and things) expensive and of high quality: 高档的，一流的 He takes her to some really posh restaurants.他带她去了一些真正高档的饭店。 costing a lot of money expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes. dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket. costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery. priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey. exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town. C2UKinformal (of people and their voices) from a high social class: （人或口音）上流社会的；谈吐高雅的 A woman with a very posh accent phoned for him earlier.一位谈吐高雅的女士早些时候打电话找他。 too posh to pushUKinformalhumorous used for describing a woman from a high social class who chooses to have a caesarean section (= a medical operation) to have her baby: （女人）选择剖腹产的 Researchers did not find much evidence of the so-called "too posh to push" phenomenon. It's a posh bit of London. She's got a very posh car. The shops looked so posh I didn't dare go in. She's from a very posh family. His girlfriend is really posh. Expensive & luxurious be expensive to do champagne costliness costly expense expensively gold plate grandly lush luxuriant luxurious luxury luxury goods palatially plushly poshly poshness preciousness ritzy unaffordable You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Class & class-consciousness in general Related wordposhness posh adverb uk /pɒʃ/ us /pɑːʃ/ UKnot standard as though from a high social class: 举止如上流社会地 She talks dead posh.她谈吐很文雅。 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 petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie trailer trash underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class posh | American Dictionaryposh adjective us/pɑʃ/ expensive, comfortable, and of high quality: a posh hotel/restaurant Examples of poshposh On the other hand, it had ample space for posh new neighbourhoods and showplace parks, in which lighting and night-time outings were signs of civilization. However, being 'posh' is not a positive thing for some of these respondents. The phrase 'too posh to push' has been coined as an indictment of celebrities, although sometimes the phrase is used to encompass all middle-class women. The posh word for it is hermeneutics: to 'translate, interpret, make intelligible'. He has become totally posh, what? The school has become so posh that contemporaries of mine, including myself, could not now get into it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suppose that that is simply a posh way of saying "two-facedness". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know why they are called "surgeries"—it sounds very posh. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They speak constantly of differentials and relativities or, in less posh language, more than the other bloke gets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If anyone thinks that that is a posh address, as it is, the area board addresses are often much less posh. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The people whom we met had posh designer suits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Half the long-term unemployed— the posh name for those who have been out of work longest— are under 35. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is quite clear that the opposition to the neighbourhood school has its limits, provided the area is posh enough. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want these posh terms of the bureaucrats and the administrators, about developing and developed countries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my understanding, "facilitate"is no more than a posh way of expressing"help" with such matters as general guidance and assistance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of posh These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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