Upstart

(noun.) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class.

(noun.) an arrogant or presumptuous person.

整理:理查德

• Why, any upstart who has got neither blood nor position. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Alexander's feelings for Napoleon had always been of a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon as a rival, and despised him as an underbred upstart. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Or was he but a mere upstart man, of extraordinary genius, without strength of mind to know what he would be at? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• You've always been an upstart, and you've always been against me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• All I now ask, all your mother, Idris, requests is, that you will not see this upstart during the interval of one month. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They saw one upstart pretender to empire succeed another with complete indifference. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I have quite a horror of upstarts. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

手打:曼弗雷德