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 upstart ['ʌpstɑ:t]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 新贵, 暴发户, 自命不凡者

a. 暴富的




    upstart
    [ noun ]
    1. an arrogant or presumptuous person

      2. <noun.person>
    2. a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class

      3. <noun.person>
    3. 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

      4. <noun.act>
    [ adj ]
    1. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

      2. <adj.all>


    Upstart \Up*start"\, v. i.
    To start or spring up suddenly. --Spenser. Tennyson.


    Upstart \Up"start`\, n.
    1. One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth,
    power, or honor; a parvenu. --Bacon.

    2. (Bot.) The meadow saffron. --Dr. Prior.


    Upstart \Up"start`\, a.
    Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. ``A race of
    upstart creatures.'' --Milton.

    1. But it was an upstart center-left coalition led by PRI-defector Cuauhtemoc Cardenas that loosened the PRI's tight grip on power in Mexico for 59 years.
    2. But Mr. Benton noted that the company tries to keep its net profit margins at 5% to 6%, rather than let earnings grow with its booming revenue, as part of its strategy to keep upstart computer makers from chipping away at its business.
    3. But AT&T says MCI wants it both ways: it wants to appear to shareholders as a strong, confident, state-of-the art network but it wants to appear to regulators as a struggling, vulnerable upstart.
    4. Saatchi, the company that started it all, clearly is no upstart now.
    5. The move comes at a crucial time for upstart Presidential, which was taken public in 1985 by Mr. Pareti and a few other youthful refugees from now-defunct People Express.
    6. Also, English-speaking voters may abandon Mr. Bourassa's Liberals in favor of an upstart group, the Equality Party, to protest language legislation passed last winter that limited the posting of commercial signs in English.
    7. MarkAir filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 1992. The MarkAir story is also indicative of the relationship between upstart carriers and established operators.
    8. Japan's Hitachi Ltd. and a unit of South Korea's Samsung Group settled a semiconductor-patent dispute that chip experts have heralded as the start of a new era of technology-rights battles between Japan and upstart Asian nations.
    9. If we made mistakes, we'll take our lumps." The Social Democrats kept control of parliament and the upstart Greens environmental party won seats for the first time, nationwide election returns showed Sunday.
    10. Such strong names as Marks and Spencer, GUS and Boots are benefiting from the protection afforded them by brand franchises, cost advantages and the difficulties any upstart rival would find in entering their established markets.
    11. And in 1979, an upstart Democrat named Jane Byrne, a one-time protege of the elder Daley who spent much of her subsequent term fearing a challenge from the younger Daley, upset Bilandic in the mayor's race and shut the spigot completely.
    12. Mr. Cunningham, a 38-year-old writer who has yet to quit his day job at Carnegie Corp., is no writing-workshop upstart.
    13. Vice Chancellor Josef Riegler, leader of the People's Party, said it would talk to the Socialists about rebuilding the coalition forged in 1986 rather than turning first to the upstart Freedom Party and its leader Joerg Haider.
    14. Prodded by upstart America West Airlines, the Senate Commerce Committee is working on a bill to loosen or eliminate limits on the number of flights into LaGuardia, JFK, O'Hare and Washington National.
    15. One right-of-center candidate that has appealed to young voters is Fernando Collor de Mello, a 40-year-old upstart candidate from Brazil's poor Northeast who has pledged to clean up government.
    16. It copiously notes many weird tales of the upstart network, from the early days when work crews were literally finishing the set as anchor Bernard Shaw read the news.
    17. For one thing, it is harder than it was a few years ago for entrepreneurs to raise the money needed to launch the small, upstart carriers that help keep the majors' prices down.
    18. Indeed, small, upstart lines may be relegated to supporting roles in the coming years.
    19. Sinegal looked an upstart when he decided to go his own way and set up Costco in 1983.
    20. The Old Farmer's Almanac is not to be confused with its upstart rival, the Farmer's Almanac, which is about a third as thick, 23 years younger, and is given away to businesses for advertising purposes.
    21. IBP shook up the meatpacking industry 20 years ago as an upstart in the staid meatpacking business.
    22. An upstart rival to the centuries-old City on its doorstep, dockland's ability to usurp the traditional role of the Square Mile was always in question.
    23. It wasn't a complete wash for the upstart Fox network.
    24. D&B puts the percentage at 9.5 percent over last year, and as usual, many of these are upstart companies.
    25. Founded in the 1870s by an upstart Osaka money-changer, Nomura emerged as the world's biggest securities firm by the mid-'80s.
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