snob
snob 英 [snɒb] 美 [snɑb]
n. 势利小人，势利眼；假内行
名词复数:snobs
- If your best friend tells you that you've become a snob, he means that you've become condescending and you like to think you're better than everyone else. Of course maybe he's a snob for looking down on your behavior — how annoying!
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- n. 势利小人，势利眼；假内行
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1. They make me ask myself if I am really such a snob when I am waking, and this in itself is very unpleasant.
它们是我反问自己是否是一个势利眼当我清醒，漫步在人潮之中时，尽管这个问题本身就是令人十分不快的。
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2. Every food snob has a few items for which he will pay any price, bear any burden.
每一个食物挑剔者都有一些负担，就是他将付出任何代价和承受任何责任。
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3. It's nothing much that many Chinese are eager to speak English. They do this merely because of their need of practice , instead of snob value.
有许多中国人想说英语，其实并非是崇洋媚外，因此没有什么大不了，因为他们需要更多的机会联系英语。
- snob (n.) 1781, "a shoemaker, a shoemaker's apprentice," of unknown origin. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang c. 1796, often contemptuously, for "townsman, local merchant," and passed then into literary use, where by 1831 it was being used for "person of the ordinary or lower classes." Meaning "person who vulgarly apes his social superiors" is by 1843, popularized 1848 by William Thackeray's "Book of Snobs." The meaning later broadened to include those who insist on their gentility, in addition to those who merely aspire to it, and by 1911 the word had its main modern sense of "one who despises those considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste." Inverted snob is from 1909.
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