upstart
upstart 英 [ˈʌpstɑ:t] 美 [ˈʌpstɑrt]
n. 暴发户；自命不凡的人；傲慢自负的人 adj. 暴富的；自命不凡的 vt. 使…突然跳起；使…崛起
名词复数:upstarts
- An upstart is someone who's cocky and arrogant, and who doesn't show much respect for other people.
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- n. 暴发户；自命不凡的人；傲慢自负的人
- adj. 暴富的；自命不凡的
- vt. 使…突然跳起；使…崛起
- vi. 突然跳起；崛起
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1. He tried to pass for a gentleman;but everyone knew he was an upstart.
他设法将自己冒充成为一名绅士，但每个人都知道他只是一位暴发户。
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2. That’s right. The world’s third-biggest company, measured by market value, is about to discover that the line between cool upstart and ugly monopolist is a very thin one.
由市场价值所评估的世界第三大公司将会揭露出那条划分酷酷的暴发户和丑恶的垄断家之间的浅浅的分界线。
- upstart (n.) 1550s, "one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu," also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of "jump, spring, rise." As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart "to spring to one's feet," attested from c. 1300.
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