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单词 jumped-up
释义
jumped-up
adjective[before noun]
UKinformaldisapproving
uk
/ˌdʒʌmptˈʌp/us
/ˌdʒʌmptˈʌp/
behavingas if you are veryimportantinyourjoborposition,especiallybecause you used to be in a muchlowerposition:
（尤指因地位显着提高后）自命不凡的，妄自尊大的
He's just a jumped-upofficeboy(= he wasonceonly anofficeboy).他不过是从办公室勤杂员的位子上升上来的妄自尊大的家伙。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Showing arrogance and conceit
  • (as) proud as Luciferidiom
  • airs and gracesidiom
  • arrogant
  • arrogantly
  • as ifyouowned the placeidiom
  • dog
  • egocentric
  • egocentrically
  • egoistic
  • egomaniacal
  • overweeningly
  • patronize
  • patronizing
  • pomposity
  • pompous
  • talk down tosomeone
  • think the (whole) world revolves aroundyouidiom
  • throwyourweight aroundidiom
  • tin god
  • toffee-nosed
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(Definition ofjumped-upfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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I am only following the example of what can only be classed as the "modernjumped-uppeerage".
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After that, of course, we had the secondary modern schools, which were nothing more thanjumped-upelementary schools.
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The first marquesses (which are sort ofjumped-upearls, as indeed are dukes) were created in 1597 and the first viscount in 1606.
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How can a lot ofjumped-upboundary commissioners abolish with one stroke of the pen 400 years of history?
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We are not helped by the impertinent remarks fromjumped-uppups of the kind that we had a few minutes ago.
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