| 词汇 | snob |
| 释义 | snob noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /snɒb/ us /snɑːb/ C2 a person who respects and likes only people who are of a high social class, and/or a person who has extremely high standards who is not satisfied by the things that ordinary people like: 势利小人，势利眼；爱虚荣的人 He's a terrible snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.他是个十足的势利眼——如果你没上过名牌学校，他也许一句话都不跟你说。 I'm a bit of a wine snob/a snob where wine is concerned.我想我对葡萄酒有点挑剔。 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 the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class snob | American Dictionarysnob noun[ C ] us/snɑb/ a person who judges the importance of people mainly by their social position or wealth, and who believes social position or wealth makes one person better than others A snob can also be a person who gives a very high value to any quality which that person believes makes him or her better than other people: intellectual snobs snobberynoun[ U ]us/ˈsnɑb·ə·ri/(alsosnobbishness, us/ˈsnɑb·ɪʃ·nəs/) snobbishadjectiveus/ˈsnɑb·ɪʃ/(alsosnobby, us/ˈsnɑb·i/) a snobbish remark Examples of snobsnob The ' educated class ', mainly government clerks, he wrote, were ' social snobs ', unwilling to mix with manual workers. He turned his back on the doubters and the snobs and made wonderful theatre for people. I do not mean to suggest that this person would be a snob. There still seems to be ample material for pictures, in papers which cater for the snob, of people enjoying expensive amusements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a certain snob value about sherry for some unknown reason. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always felt that those who are stricken with the disease of class consciousness are really the biggest snobs in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody would be such an intellectual snob as to suggest that graduates are the only educated men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Children can prove that they are snobs with or without an exam at the age of 11. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was absolutely no question of any snob barrier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are trying to suit the opinion of snobs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Members may think that the craftsman is a snob. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of them are all right, but some are very far from right, and they are maintained on a kind of snob appeal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You will only make working-class children into snobs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are a nation of snobs, but not the only one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The picture of these schools as hot houses producing segregated intellectual snobs is ludicrous to everyone who has ever stepped inside them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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