upstart

英 ['ʌpstɑːt] 美 ['ʌpstɑrt]

解释

※ 提供单词"upstart"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

upstart 自命不凡的新上任者

比喻用法。

upstart: upstart: [16] An upstart is etymologically simply someone who has ‘started up’ – but start in its early sense ‘jump, spring, rise’. Start-up was an early alternative version of the word (‘That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow’, says Don John in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 1599), but it did not survive the 17th century.
upstart (n.): 1550s, "one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu," also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of "jump, spring, rise." As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart "to spring to one's feet," attested from c. 1300.

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1. Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.: 很多人都更愿意跟自己熟悉的权威人物打交道，而不是一个年纪轻轻却自命不凡的家伙。

2. The hi - tech plastics come from a young company with Upstart has formed a joint venture.: 高科技塑料是来自与新贵(Upstart)合资的一个年轻的公司.