汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 势利小人
势利小人 (勢利小人)
snob
() shì xiǎo rén
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你们是多么可恶的势利小人

What nasty little snobs you all are.

那个罗布是个势利小人,喜欢攀龙附凤——无可否定。

That Rob was a snob and a social climber could not be denied.

他这个人明显有一股势利小人的气味。

He had a definite strain of snobbery in him.

汤姆没有手帕,他认为有手帕的孩子是势利小人

Tom had no handkerchief, and he looked upon boys who had as snobs.

其次,周围的老同事几乎个个都是谄上媚下的势利小人。 。

Secondly, , the old colleagues around me are almost snobbish.

但是佩尼先生不是势利小人,也不是颠倒是非或者其它什么样的人,他提供了很实用的建议。

But Mr Penny, no snob, inverted or otherwise, offers practical advice.

这种说法通常暴露出势利小人眼中的世界,他们认为那些前往肯尼亚的英国殖民者都会成为长官,而那些被派遣进驻南罗得西亚的仅有着军士的身份。

This was often a nakedly snobbish observation, accompanied by the comment that the British colonists who went to Kenya tended to be officers, whereas those settling in Southern Rhodesia were NCOs.