“瞧不起人、势利眼的”用英文翻译是：snobbish，常指一些人趋炎附势，瞧不起、排斥（exclude）地位比自己低(inferior)的个人或群体，并阻止他们的地位上升。我们来看看snobbish的英文解释： characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior；Characteristic of or resembling a snob.（具有snob特征的）注意snob是snobbish的名词形式，指“势利眼”。Snobbish的近义词有：pretentious.
版权声明：如无特别说明，本站所有文章均由Will的美语课（Learnenglishwithwill.com）原创。本站欢迎少量文字引用，但请注明出处。任何网站或个人，未经授权，不得抄袭、转载、盗用本站内容，违者必究。
在美剧《劳拉的秘密》（The mysterious of Laura）第一季episode 1中，Laura的老公Jake想让2个孩子入Pre-K（学前班），但被学校的面试官无情拒绝，Jake忍无可忍，对不近人情的女面试官大发牢骚：“I might no the father of the year, but this woman works her ass off and is still there for her sons, She’s the best mom you could hope to have in your stupid school. You snobbish Pre-K Nazi queen!” 其中就用到了snobbish这个词。