中英互译
parvenu
英 /ˈpɑːvənjuː/美 /ˈpɑːrvənuː/
基本释义
- n.暴发户，新贵
- adj.暴发户的
复数parvenus
双语例句
- You can tell he is a parvenu.你看他财大气粗，就知道他是个暴发户。
- The parvenu was much too foxy to let slip even a hint of his working - class background.暴发户十分狡猾，他决不暴露自己是工人出身这一事实。
- German fictionist, composer Hoffman (1776, 1822) sojourn to the home of a parvenu of Berlin.德国小说家、作曲家霍夫曼(1776—1822年)到柏林的一个新贵家作客。
同义词
n.
[经]暴发户，新贵
词义分布
暴发户
55.6%
新贵
44.4%
英英释义
- n.a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- adj.characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
- adj.of or characteristic of a parvenu
词源
- parvenu暴发户，新贵来自法语parvenu,来自前缀 par- = per- (through, 通过)，词根 -venu = ven- (to come, 到来)，同根词venue,advent；字面意思是“an obscure person who has made a great fortune”，即新来的，引申词义暴发户，新贵。