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单词 snob
释义
snob
noun[C]
disapproving
uk
/snɒb/us
/snɑːb/
C2
apersonwhorespectsandlikesonlypeoplewho are of a highsocialclass, and/or apersonwho hasextremelyhighstandardswho is notsatisfiedby the things thatordinarypeoplelike:
势利小人，势利眼；爱虚荣的人
He's aterriblesnob - if you haven't been to therightschoolheprobablywon'tevenspeakto you.他是个十足的势利眼——如果你没上过名牌学校，他也许一句话都不跟你说。
I'm abitof awinesnob/a snob wherewineisconcerned.我想我对葡萄酒有点挑剔。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
  • anti-bourgeois
  • anti-snob
  • arriviste
  • bougie
  • gentrification
  • gentrify
  • go/come down in the worldidiom
  • go/come up in the worldidiom
  • pedigreed
  • petit bourgeois
  • petty bourgeois
  • pleb
  • social mobility
  • the bottom of the heapidiom
  • the gentry
  • the petite bourgeoisie
  • the upper crust
  • trailer trash
  • underclass
  • upper class
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(Definition ofsnobfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

snob| American Dictionary

snob
noun[C]
us
/snɑb/
apersonwhojudgestheimportanceofpeoplemainlybytheirsocialpositionorwealth, and whobelievessocialpositionorwealthmakes onepersonbetterthanothers
A snob can also be apersonwho gives a very highvalueto anyqualitywhich thatpersonbelievesmakes him or herbetterthan otherpeople:
intellectualsnobs

snobbery

noun[U]us
/ˈsnɑb·ə·ri/(alsosnobbishness,us/ˈsnɑb·ɪʃ·nəs/)

snobbish

adjectiveus
/ˈsnɑb·ɪʃ/(alsosnobby,us/ˈsnɑb·i/)
a snobbishremark
(Definition ofsnobfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsnob

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The ' educated class ', mainly government clerks, he wrote, were ' social snobs ', unwilling to mix with manual workers.
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He turned his back on the doubters and the snobs and made wonderful theatre for people.
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I do not mean to suggest that this person would be asnob.
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There still seems to be ample material for pictures, in papers which cater for thesnob, of people enjoying expensive amusements.
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There is a certainsnobvalue about sherry for some unknown reason.
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I have always felt that those who are stricken with the disease of class consciousness are really the biggest snobs in the world.
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Nobody would be such an intellectualsnobas to suggest that graduates are the only educated men.
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Children can prove that they are snobs with or without an exam at the age of 11.
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There was absolutely no question of anysnobbarrier.
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We are trying to suit the opinion of snobs.
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Members may think that the craftsman is asnob.
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Some of them are all right, but some are very far from right, and they are maintained on a kind ofsnobappeal.
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You will only make working-class children into snobs.
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We are a nation of snobs, but not the only one.
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The picture of these schools as hot houses producing segregated intellectual snobs is ludicrous to everyone who has ever stepped inside them.
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