parvenu

美 [ˈpɑːrvənuː]英 [ˈpɑːvənjuː]
  • n.暴发户;新贵
  • adj.(像)暴发户的

复数: parvenus

parvenuparvenu

noun

【不规则形式】pl. -us

formal disapproving暴发户;新贵
a person from a low social or economic position who has suddenly become rich or powerful

parvenu

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT 暴发户;新贵
    If you describe someone as a parvenu, you think that although they have acquired wealth or high status they are not very cultured or well-educated.

noun

1
a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
Synonym: upstart nouveau-riche arriviste

adj

1
of or characteristic of a parvenu
Synonym: parvenue
2
characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
Synonym: nouveau-riche parvenue upstart(a)

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  1. The parvenu was much too foxy to let slip even a hint of his working - class background .

    暴发户十分狡猾,他决不暴露自己是工人出身这一事实。

  2. The parvenu invited guests but they all hung off .

    这个暴发户邀请了客人,但是他们都不愿意去。

  3. Well , we 've no need for relatives who are such stingy , snobbish parvenus as that . \\ "

    这种鄙吝势利的暴发户,咱们不希罕和他们做亲家。

  4. Parvenus love the Louis Vuitton logo , the researchers say .

    研究人员们说,新贵喜欢路易威登(LouisVuitton)标识。

  5. Yet China 's recent rise has taken place in a world organised along principles devised elsewhere , by foreign parvenus .

    而近些年来中国崛起所处的大背景却是一个遵循外国新贵所创设的原则而建构起来的世界。

  6. A Wandering Spirit : the Parvenus and the Make-up Movement Under the Small-Peasant Consciousness in the City

    一个不散的幽灵:暴发户与小农意识下的城市化妆运动

  7. Though they posed as Texans , she knew they were Connecticut parvenus who preferred to summer in Maine .

    尽管他们自称德州人,但实际上她知道布什父子是康涅狄格人,并且连渡假都在缅因州。

  8. Those companies and bosses had this " parvenu " hind , just when make pet , do not come to it to raise really , want to turn them into profitable machine however .

    那些公司和老板们拥有了这个“新贵”后,并不把它真正当作宠物来养,而是要把它们变成赚钱的机器。

  9. Married a parvenu vulgarian ;

    与一个粗俗的暴发户结婚;

  10. In the stock market , some investors handle the proper , thereby prompt parvenus ; Great majority contrary investors get bogged down among it , with their fund deeply jailed or shrinking , and their state is disgusting .

    在股票市场上,有些投资者操作得当,从而迅速暴富;相反大多数投资者身陷其中,或深度套牢,或资金缩水,状态不堪入目。

  11. There was no particular reason , however , why the blue-blooded Brady , would have a fine feeling about a social parvenu like John Gutfreund - or a fine feeling about an arrogant upstart firm like Salomon .

    然而,没有什么特别的原因,会让出身高贵的布雷迪对像古德菲瑞德这样一个热衷于社交的暴发户或者像所罗门这样一家傲慢自大的暴发户公司抱有好感。