snob
noun /snɒb/
/snɑːb/
(disapproving)- a person who admires people in the higher social classes too much and has no respect for people in the lower social classes
势利小人；谄上欺下的人 - She's such a snob!
她就是那么一个势利的人！
- She's such a snob!
- a person who thinks they are much better than other people because they are intelligent or like things that many people do not like
自以为优越的人；自命高雅的人 - an intellectual snob
自命知识渊博的人 - a food/wine snob
食物/葡萄酒势利者 - There is a snob value in driving the latest model.
开最新款式的车能满足一种庸俗的虚荣心。
- an intellectual snob
词源late 18th cent. (originally dialect in the sense ‘cobbler’): of unknown origin; early senses conveyed a notion of “lower status or rank”, later denoting a person trying to imitate those of higher social standing or wealth. Folk etymology connects the word with Latin sine nobilitate ‘without nobility’ but the first recorded sense has no connection with this.