upstarts

英 [ˈʌpstɑːts]

美 [əpˈstɑrts]

n.  自命不凡的新上任者; 狂妄自大的新手
upstart的复数

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.
  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. ...an upstart who had come from nowhere.
     原本是个无名之辈的目中无人的新丁

双语例句

• Internet banking has failed to live up to its promise, both for traditional banks and for the upstarts that were supposed to wipe them out.
  网络银行在实现自己的承诺方面已经失败，无论是对传统银行还是新兴大客户，都应该将它清理出局。
• Big Pharma, eager to refill its emptying drug pipelines, has in recent years looked hopefully to biotech's upstarts.
  打的制药商渴望能够再填充药物运输的空缺，就近几年来看，对生物化学的新型企业看上去比较有希望。
• In fictions of ancient China such as Stories of the Five Dynasties, some gangsters or hooligans are often described as upstarts who made careers for themselves by entering military service.
  流氓无赖发迹成为英雄猛将，是古代白话小说中经常出现的母题。
• Throughout the year, networks ( and now upstarts like streaming-media services) are rolling out series that seem meaty enough to merit at least a first round of sampling and debate.
  在这一整年里，各大电视台（现在流媒体等新兴平台也加入其中）推出了似乎内容足够有料、至少值得头一轮品鉴和辩论的剧集。
• Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.
  象一切暴发户一样，他以前经常装出一种过份的骄傲以维持他的地位。
• And even if the upstarts keep stealing marginal customers, the far superior networks of the incumbents should help them retain the highest-value customers.
  即便后起之秀不断夺走边际用户，老牌运营商优越得多的网络应当有助于它们留住最高价值的客户。
• While scorning the hoopla of traditional brands, the upstarts are racing to build brands of their own.
  虽然看不起传统商标太过吵闹，新贵们正迅速地建立属于自己的牌子。
• The line is blurring as upstarts shift toward producing more original material, but the point stands.
  随着新兴网站逐渐增加原创内容，两类网站之间的界线渐趋模糊，但上述论点依然成立。
• But if Facebook doesn't do it, there are dozens and dozens of upstarts that help personalize ads down to a personal level, though a lot of them have privacy issues.
  但是如果Facebook不去做这件事的话，还有很多很多的初创公司可以帮助企业把广告定制到个人层面，不过其中很多牵涉到隐私问题。
• But Hefner says he does not resent the upstarts that made his once raunchy publication look tame.
  不过，赫夫纳说，他不恨使他那一度淫秽的杂志显得平淡的这些新的暴发户。