an ambitious or ruthlessly self-seeking person
野心勃勃(或无情)的追求私利者。
"early 20th cent.: from French, from
n. 野心勃勃的追求私利者
The coats of my growing-up seemed too all-encompassing, too obliterating of the person underneath. That, or just too nakedly arriviste.
在我成长过程中看到的皮草都显得过于厚重以至整个人都陷在里面,或者干脆使穿着皮草的人看上去都像急于显富的暴发户。
In his memoirs, Tony Blair guesses that he unsettled the Establishment by being an "arriviste" : neither born into the elite nor knowing his proper place.
在自己的回忆录中,托尼·布莱尔认为由于自己实属“暴发户”——“生来就不不属于精英团队,也不知道自己到底处于一个什么地位”,所以没有碰触即成体制这一问题。
She had more respect for Michaelis, on whose name they all poured such withering contempt, as a little mongrel arriviste, and uneducated bounder of the worst sort.
他们一提起蔑克里斯的名,便盛气凌人地骂他是杂种的幸进者,是无教育的最贱的下流人,但是康妮却比较尊重他。
an ambitious or ruthlessly self-seeking person
野心勃勃(或无情)的追求私利者。
"early 20th cent.: from French, from