他们很势利眼，不喜欢才智和社会地位不如自己的人。

They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors.

与英国多数人过著类似被保护的生活相较，或许这里很少有人会被冠上势利眼的封号。

Perhaps none has a worse reputation for snootiness than Britain, where plenty of people lead a similarly sheltered existence.

现在她成了孤儿，母亲那边的那些势利眼的亲戚将要把她带到新月农场跟他们一起住。

Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm.

博伊兰头一个情人可能够味儿，鲁道夫想：从他话里听得出势利眼的权度快乐，但是她肯定没有帮助他纠正发音。

She might have been delicious, Boylan's first love, Rudolph thought, tasting the profound joys of snobbery, but she sure didn't work on his accent.