| 词汇 | social-climbing |
| 释义 | social climbing noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˌsəʊ.ʃəl ˈklaɪ.mɪŋ/ us /ˌsoʊ.ʃəl ˈklaɪ.mɪŋ/ the act of trying to improve your social position by being very friendly to people from a higher social class: 趋炎附势，试图挤入上流社会 Have you ever seen such a shocking display of social climbing?你见过如此令人震惊的挤入社会上流的行为吗？ See social climber Beth was stung by criticism that the couple had engaged in opportunistic social climbing. They annoyed some people with their posh voices and eccentric manners, behaviour some mistook for social climbing. After all, if you have ambitions of your son becoming prime minister, you have to be prepared to do a spot of social climbing in order to help him achieve your dream. Her penchant for aggressive social climbing was exposed, with her obsession for sending excessive gifts to the great and the good whom she claimed were her close personal friends. 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 |
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