英汉词典

snob 基本解释

• n. 势利小人，势利眼；假内行

snob 词态变化

snob 中文词源

词源不详，原义为修鞋匠，补鞋匠，后约于 1796 年剑桥大学学生借用该词来指小市民，小 商人，小商贩，并最终用于文学词义指势利眼，势利小人。也有俗词源解读为在 19 世纪初， 牛津和剑桥大学在普通学生的名字前面标注拉丁语 sine nobilitate,字面意思即非贵族，来自 sine,无，没有，nobilitate,贵族，词源同 noble.更为接受的说法是，标注为该拉丁语对应的法 语 sans noblesse,非贵族。

snob 英文词源

snob

snob: [18] Snob originally meant a ‘shoemaker’. Cambridge University students of the late 18th century took it over as a slang term for a ‘townsman, someone not a member of the university’, and it seems to have been this usage which formed the basis in the 1830s for the emergence of the new general sense ‘member of the lower orders’ (‘The nobs have lost their dirty seats – the honest snobs have got ’em’, proclaimed the Lincoln Herald on 22 July 1831, anticipating the new Reform Act).

This in turn developed into ‘ostentatiously vulgar person’, but it was the novelist William Thackeray who really sowed the seeds of the word’s modern meaning in his Book of Snobs 1848, where he used it for ‘someone vulgarly aping his social superiors’. It has since broadened out to include those who insist on their gentility as well as those who aspire to it. As for the origins of the word snob itself, they remain a mystery.

An ingenious suggestion once put forward is that it came from s. nob., supposedly an abbreviation for Latin sine nobilitate ‘without nobility’, but this ignores the word’s early history.

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."

snob 英文释义

1. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

snob 双语例句

1. People want to buy designer labels for snob value.

人们想买名牌是为了满足虚荣心。

来自柯林斯例句

2. She was an intellectual snob.

她自以为才智高人一等。

来自柯林斯例句

3. I was a thorough little academic snob.

我那时是个目空一切、自以为是的小学术愤青。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Kenneth is an arrogant, rude, social snob.

肯尼斯是一个傲慢粗鲁只喜欢结交权贵的势利鬼。

来自柯林斯例句

5. She's such a snob!

她竟是这样一个势利眼！

来自《权威词典》

snob 实用场景例句

She's such a snob!

她竟是这样一个势利眼！

牛津词典

an intellectual snob

自命知识渊博的人

牛津词典

a food/wine, etc. snob

自命精于品味美食、葡萄酒等的人

牛津词典

There is a snob value in driving the latest model.

开最新款式的车能满足一种庸俗的虚荣心。

牛津词典

Going to a private school had made her a snob...

上私立学校后，她变得很势利。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Kenneth is an arrogant, rude, social snob.

肯尼斯是一个傲慢粗鲁只喜欢结交权贵的势利鬼。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

She was an intellectual snob.

她自以为才智高人一等。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a first class food snob.

自认为饮食方面品位一流的家伙

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He was a fearful snob.

他是个十足的势利眼.

辞典例句

She's such a snob!

她竟是这样一个势利眼!

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This part of the town have a lot of snob appeal.

该城的这一区很能吸引自视甚高的人.

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This car sells well because of its snob value.

这种汽车很有派头,因此很畅销.

辞典例句

He is a snob who always slanders others in front of the emperor.

他是个喜欢向皇帝进谗的小人.

期刊摘选

So Diana had snob appeal to burn.

黛安娜必须烧毁这样的傲慢.

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He wasn't like that before he got the job. Now he's such a snob!

他没坐这个职位以前不是这样的, 真势利!

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He's a snob of the first water.

他是个头号势利小人.

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I have to admit that I nearly did fall into the trap of becoming a snob.

我得承认我也几乎变得自命不凡.

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He's a bit of a snob won't speak to the likes of me.

他这个人有点势利--不会和我这样的人说话.

辞典例句

But the snob in him loved hunting in society.

但他的虚荣心使他喜欢在上流社会捕猎.

期刊摘选

By heavens, Lizzie , what a snob you are!

天阿,丽西, 你真是个自负傲慢的人!

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My difficulty is that he is a wine snob.

让我感到烦恼的是,他是一个品酒的假行家.

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Don't be such a snob.

别这样势利.

口语例句

He's a bit of a snob and won't speak to the likes of me.

他这个人有点势利,不会和我这样的人说话.

期刊摘选

I wasn't interested in a snob degree.

我对人家附庸风雅的地位没有兴趣.

辞典例句

He raise head and chest out , packing the proptosis snob appeal of an university.

他抬头挺胸,装出一副大学者的派头.

期刊摘选

Whatever advantage the domestic has in price is offset by the imported's snob appeal.

国产产品在价钱上的任何优势都抵挡不住进口产品对人们的吸引力.

期刊摘选

You chaps knows me . I'm not a snob. Right?

你们这些家伙都知道我不是一个势利小人, 对 吗 ?

期刊摘选

Pam once complained to me that his lordship was slave driver, a snob, and a bore.

佩姆有次在我面前诉过苦,说这位勋爵大人是个监管奴隶的工头, 一个势力鬼, 惹人厌烦的家伙.

辞典例句