If you call someone a snob, you disapprove of them because they behave as if they are superior to other people because of their intelligence, taste, or social status. 自命不凡的人
noun [专属名词] 势利小人，谄上欺下的人；自以为懂行者，自命不凡的人
She was an intellectual snob. 她自诩才智高人一等。
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参考snobbery(n. 势利态度， 自命不凡)
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- She's such a snob! 她竟是这样一个势利眼！
- She was a snob of the first order. 她是天字第一号势利鬼。
snob 的重要知识点
snob n. 1. (disapproving) a person who admires people in the higher social classes too much and has no respect for people in the lower social classes 势利小人
- Dickie disliked snobs intensely.
- snobs who despised their working-class son-in-law
snob n. 2. person who feels he has superior tastes, knowledge, etc. 自命不凡的人
- a bunch of intellectual snobs
snobbery n. [U] 势利；自命不凡
- His intellectual snobbery made it difficult for him to connect with people outside of academia. 他在智力上的傲慢让他很难与学术界以外的人交往。
- She accused me of snobbery because I sent my sons to a private school.
| accuse sb. of intellectual snobbery 指责某人自命清高/智力傲慢 |
The critic was accused of intellectual snobbery for dismissing popular movies as "trash." 这位影评人因将大众电影贬为“垃圾”而被指责为智力傲慢。 |
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| reverse intellectual snobbery 反向智力傲慢 （故作无知以示合群或排斥精英） |
In some social circles, there is a kind of reverse intellectual snobbery where being "too smart" is looked down upon. 在某些社交圈中，存在一种反向的智力傲慢，即“太聪明”反而会被瞧不起。 |
snobbish adj. 势力的；自命不凡的
- I'd expected her to be snobbish but she was warm and friendly.
- They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors.