upstart

英['ʌpstɑːt] 美['ʌpstɑrt]

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复数: upstarts;

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.

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.