upstart
英 [ˈʌpstɑːt]
美 [ˈʌpstɑːrt]
n. 自命不凡的新上任者; 狂妄自大的新手
复数:upstarts
Collins.1 / BNC.20694 / COCA.15398
牛津词典
noun
- 自命不凡的新上任者;狂妄自大的新手
a person who has just started in a new position or job but who behaves as if they are more important than other people, in a way that is annoying
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (初到某地或初出茅庐却)自命不凡的家伙
You can refer to someone as anupstartwhen they behave as if they are important, but you think that they are too new in a place or job to be treated as important.- 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。 - ...an upstart who had come from nowhere.
原本是个无名之辈的目中无人的新丁
- Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.
英英释义
noun
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- an arrogant or presumptuous person
双语例句
- You impudent upstart. I shall take great delight in dispatching you myself.
你这个厚颜无耻的暴发户,如果能亲自消灭你,我会很高兴。 - She advocates brands, but not upstart's fanaticism.
她崇尚名牌,却不是暴发户式的狂热。 - Until recently, it was easy to dismiss such ambitions as the hubristic musings of a young upstart.
直到最近,人们很容易将这类雄心壮志视为年轻新贵的狂妄自大。 - The Ubuntu upstart system is an event-based approach for init system replacement.
Ubuntuupstart系统是替代init系统的一个基于事件的方法。 - Forty years ago, upstart companies from a rising Japan pushed western competitors to the wall.
40年前,来自崛起中日本的企业新贵们把西方竞争对手逼到了墙角。 - Upstart requires that you update the initialization scripts to support the event-based mode of operation.
Upstart要求您更新初始化脚本来支持基于事件的操作模式。 - But within AIG, an upstart entrepreneurial subsidiary was booming.
但在AIG内部,企业子公司正在蓬勃发展。 - Do you think customers will associate the failed upstart with ours?
你认为顾客会把这个失败的新公司和我们连在一起吗? - As part of our boot performance work, we have now transitioned to Upstart.
我们已经花了很多功夫在改进系统启动的外观效果上。 - If Apple wins against HTC, that would be bad news for upstart handset firms.
若苹果赢了htc,那对众多蓬勃发展的手机公司,也许是个噩耗。