upstart
英 [ˈʌpstɑːt]
美 [ˈʌpstɑːrt]
n. 自命不凡的新上任者; 狂妄自大的新手
复数:upstarts
Collins.1 / BNC.20694 / COCA.15398
牛津词典
noun
- 自命不凡的新上任者;狂妄自大的新手
a person who has just started in a new position or job but who behaves as if they are more important than other people, in a way that is annoying
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (初到某地或初出茅庐却)自命不凡的家伙
You can refer to someone as anupstartwhen they behave as if they are important, but you think that they are too new in a place or job to be treated as important.- 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。 - ...an upstart who had come from nowhere.
原本是个无名之辈的目中无人的新丁
- Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.
英英释义
noun
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- an arrogant or presumptuous person
双语例句
- Thanks to one 19th Century upstart, one also must be dead to appear on a bill.
多亏了19世纪那个自命不凡的人,一个人必须是去世之后才有资格出现在美元上。 - 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。 - You impudent upstart. I shall take great delight in dispatching you myself.
你这个厚颜无耻的暴发户,如果能亲自消灭你,我会很高兴。 - Every upstart needs capital.
每个新贵都需要资本。 - He dreaded their upstart ambition.
他惧怕他们的狂妄野心。 - As you saw above, you can use initctl with the emit option to generate an event to upstart.
正如您前面看到的一样,您可以使用initctl和emit选项为upstart生成一个事件。 - Do you think customers will associate the failed upstart with ours?
你认为顾客会把这个失败的新公司和我们连在一起吗? - But within AIG, an upstart entrepreneurial subsidiary was booming.
但在AIG内部,企业子公司正在蓬勃发展。 - You cannot marry that young upstart!
你可不能嫁给那个年轻的暴发户! - Until recently, it was easy to dismiss such ambitions as the hubristic musings of a young upstart.
直到最近,人们很容易将这类雄心壮志视为年轻新贵的狂妄自大。