英语单词“social climbing”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 social climbing 释义 social climbingnoun[U]disapprovinguk

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• Beth wasstungbycriticismthat thecouplehadengagedinopportunisticsocialclimbing.
• Theyannoyedsomepeoplewiththeirposhvoicesandeccentricmanners,behavioursomemistookforsocialclimbing.
• After all, if you haveambitionsofyoursonbecomingprimeminister, you have to bepreparedto do aspotofsocialclimbinginordertohelphimachieveyourdream.
• Herpenchantforaggressivesocialclimbingwasexposed, with herobsessionforsendingexcessivegiftsto thegreatand the good whom sheclaimedwere herclosepersonalfriends.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Class & class-consciousness in general

• anti-bourgeois
• anti-snob
• arriviste
• bougie
• gentrification
• gentrify
• go/come down in the worldidiom
• go/come up in the worldidiom
• pedigreed
• petit bourgeois
• petty bourgeois
• pleb
• social mobility
• the bottom of the heapidiom
• the gentry
• the petite bourgeoisie
• the upper crust
• trailer trash
• underclass
• upper class

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(Definition ofsocial climbingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/social-climbing##