yuppie
yuppie 英 ['jʌpɪ] 美 [ˈjʌpi]
n. （美）雅皮士（属于中上阶层的年轻专业人士）
名词复数:yuppies
- If your brother calls you a yuppie, it's not a compliment, but it does mean that he sees you as a well-paid, professional adult.
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- n. （美）雅皮士（属于中上阶层的年轻专业人士）
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1. You begin to see why people call this the female yuppie heroin.
你开始理解为什么人们把这叫做女性雅皮士的海洛因。
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2. It has even attracted a certain degree of media scepticism—being dubbed, at one time, “yuppie flu”.
它甚至还引起了一定程度上的媒体怀疑论——一度被称为“雅皮士流感”。
- yuppie (n.) 1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
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