snobbish是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 势利的, 谄上欺下的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is not a snobbish rich-man's college, devoted to leisurely nonsense.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Before Mr Swiveller could make any reply, Mr Chuckster took occasion to enter his indignant protest against this form of inquiry; which he held to be of a disrespectful and snobbish tendency, inasmuch as the inquirer, seeing two gentlemen then and there present, should have spoken of the other gentleman; or rather (for it was not impossible that the object of his search might be of inferior quality) should have mentioned his name, leaving it to his hearers to determine his degree as they thought proper.
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