snobs

英 [snɒbz]

美 [snɑbz]

n.  势利小人; 谄上欺下的人; 自以为优越的人; 自命高雅的人
snob的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 势利小人
  If you call someone asnob, you disapprove of them because they admire upper-class people and have a low opinion of lower-class people.
  1. Going to a private school had made her a snob...
     上私立学校后，她变得很势利。
  2. Kenneth is an arrogant, rude, social snob.
     肯尼斯是一个傲慢粗鲁只喜欢结交权贵的势利鬼。
• N-COUNT 自以为(在智力或品位方面)高人一等的人
  If you call someone asnob, you disapprove of them because they behave as if they are superior to other people because of their intelligence or taste.
  1. She was an intellectual snob.
     她自以为才智高人一等。
  2. ...a first class food snob.
     自认为饮食方面品位一流的家伙

双语例句

• Carlos: We haven't lost a thing except the chance to hobnob with a bunch of unhappy snobs.
  我们失去的只是与不开心的势利鬼交往的机会。
• Swiss doctors and the best that has been thought or said must be-the daily and nightly preoccupation of all the snobs respectively of disease and culture.
  疾病或文化势利者各自朝思暮想的必定是瑞士医生或人们被称作是最好的一切。
• Some Western snobs expressed contempt for oriental art without reason.
  西方一些势利小人毫无理由地看不起东方艺术。
• Tom had no handkerchief, and he looked upon boys who had as snobs.
  汤姆没有手绢，他鄙视那些有手绢的孩子们，把他们看作是故作姿态的势利小人。
• Academic snobs say such places hardly rank with MIT or Princeton, where Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve's chief, earned his spurs.
  学术上的势力之人说席根大学几乎不能与麻省理工学院或者美联储主席本伯南克成名之地普林斯顿大学相提并论。
• I have to say, I don't have much time for the pseudy vocabulary of wine snobs.
  我得说我没有很多时间听那些自以为懂得酒的人的冒充鉴赏家的行话。
• Advertising snobs said Steve Jobs never would have approved the cheesy and demeaning "genius" ads Apple ran during the London Olympics.
  自以为有品位的广告界人士声称，史蒂夫•乔布斯绝不会批准苹果在伦敦奥运会期间投放的那则低劣且自降身份的“Genius”广告。
• Musical snoBs often deride the harmonica as a serious instrument
  假充在音乐上内行的人经常嘲笑口琴作为严肃乐器的事实
• What nasty little snobs you all are
  你们全都是些可恶的势利小人。
• So why should I bother about what snobs think.
  因此，我不必烦恼那些势力的人所说的话。