upstart
英 ['ʌpstɑːt]
美['ʌpstɑrt]
- 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
词态变化
复数: upstarts;
中文词源
upstart 自命不凡的新上任者
比喻用法。
英文词源
- upstart
- upstart: [16] An upstart is etymologically simply someone who has ‘started up’ – but start in its early sense ‘jump, spring, rise’. Start-up was an early alternative version of the word (‘That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow’, says Don John in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 1599), but it did not survive the 17th century.
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.
- 很多人都更愿意跟自己熟悉的权威人物打交道，而不是一个年纪轻轻却自命不凡的家伙。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The hi - tech plastics come from a young company with Upstart has formed a joint venture.
- 高科技塑料是来自与新贵(Upstart)合资的一个年轻的公司.
来自互联网
- 3. You cannot marry that young upstart!
- 你可不能嫁给那个年轻的暴发户！
来自辞典例句
- 4. You can't marry that young upstart!
- 你可不能嫁给那个年轻的暴发户!
来自辞典例句
- 5. He was a new upstart and a gentleman of the first head.
- 他是个暴发户,是个新封的贵族.
来自互联网