snobbish

英 [ˈsnɒbɪʃ]

美 [ˈsnɑːbɪʃ]

adj.  势利的; 自命不凡的

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BNC.21368 / COCA.29534

牛津词典

adj.

• 势利的；自命不凡的
  thinking that having a high social class is very important; feeling that you are better than other people because you are more intelligent or like things that many people do not like

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (对自身社会地位、才智、品位等)过分自傲的，势利的
  If you describe someone assnobbish, you disapprove of them because they are too proud of their social status, intelligence, or taste.
  1. They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors...
     他们非常势利，不喜欢智力和社会地位不如自己的人。
  2. I'd expected her to be snobbish but she was warm and friendly.
     我原以为她会非常势利，但她却非常热情和友好。

英英释义

adj

• befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
  Synonym:clannishcliquishclubbysnobby

双语例句

• Constance: Me? I haven't a snobbish bone in my body.
  我？我身体里没有一根势利眼的骨头。
• Her boyfriend appears to be very snobbish.
  她的男朋友看起来很势利。
• Society is hopelessly snobbish, and this fact of your extraction may make an appreciable difference to its acceptance of you as my wife, after I have made you the well-read woman that I mean to make you.
  社会的势利是没有办法了，我要按照我的意思让你变成一个博学的女子，然后再做我的妻子就能被人接受了，你的德贝维尔后裔的身分也要变得大不一样了。
• These people are hellishly snobbish.
  这些人势利极了。
• It may cause the INFJ to come off as too strongly opinionated or snobbish to others.
  这可能导致INFJ表现的太强烈的固执己见或者对别人势利。
• Because she was too shy and too snobbish to mix with her neighbours, she had few friends.
  她由于过于害羞、过于势利而不肯同邻居们交往，所以也没有几个朋友。
• He is a snobbish fellow, always talks through his nose.
  他是个势利鬼，经常摆架子。
• My brother is very snobbish about cars.
  我弟弟很讲究汽车档次。
• I left the party without telling the host, for I couldn't put up with these snobbish people.
  我没有告诉主人就离开了晚会，我无法忍受那些势利小人。
• One is almost tempted to add: There is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish.
  几乎很想加一句：没有什么东西不都引起人的势利感。