upwardly mobile

英 [ˌʌpwədli ˈməʊbaɪl]

美 [ˌʌpwərdli ˈmoʊbl]

adj.  走向上层社会的; 走向富裕的; 步步高升的

牛津词典

adj.

• 走向上层社会的；走向富裕的；步步高升的
  moving towards a higher social position, usually in which you become richer
  1. upwardly mobile immigrant groups
     步步高升的移民群体
  2. an upwardly mobile lifestyle
     日益阔绰的生活方式

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (在社会地位上)向上流动的,往上爬的
  If you describe someone asupwardly mobile, you mean that they are moving, have moved, or are trying to move to a higher social position.
  1. The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters.
     该党一直不能吸引那些追求更高社会地位的选民。
  2. The upwardly mobileare people who are upwardly mobile.
     (在社会地位上)向上流动的人，往上爬的人
  3. ...the large detached houses of the upwardly mobile with their double garages and array of cars.
     处于上升阶层的人士所拥有的一栋栋独立的、带双车库的大房子和一排一排的轿车

双语例句

• These elements include neo-liberals, neo-conservatives, authoritarian populists, and a particular fraction of the upwardly mobile professional and managerial new middle class.
  该四个群体分别是：新自由主义、新保守主义、专制的民粹主义以及作为正呈向上流动趋势的专业和管理新中产阶级中的一个特殊部分。
• Look up!; the music surged up; the fragments flew upwards; prices soared upwards; upwardly mobile.
  向上看；音乐令人激情荡漾；碎片漫天飞扬；价格暴涨；向上升的，有上升趋势的。
• Labour has lost the recruits once provided by the smokestack industries and a Conservative membership card no longer bestows social cachet on the upwardly mobile middle classes.
  工党已经失去了曾由传统工业输送的成员，保守党成员的身份牌也不再能给有望向社会上层流动的中产阶层赋予社会声望。
• A young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s.
  有上升趋势的年青专业人士；40岁以下流行于十九世纪八十年代。
• Nokia weathered criticism from investors that it was expending too much effort on high-end smartphones while its rival ate into its lucrative business selling expensive 'dumb' phones to upwardly mobile people around the world.
  他们说，在竞争对手侵蚀其颇为赚钱的业务、向全球社会经济地位不断提高的用户销售昂贵的傻瓜手机时，诺基亚却在高端智能手机上花费了太多的精力。
• Its strategy of rolling out its trademark fizzy drink round the world to slake the thirst of upwardly mobile consumers in emerging markets had run out of steam.
  该公司在全球大力推广其标志性的碳酸饮料、以满足新兴市场日益增长的消费者需求的战略已失去动力。
• Mr Xu may not fit the western idea of middle class, but in the Chinese context he and 270m migrant workers like him are part of a new category of upwardly mobile consumers.
  徐波或许并不符合西方对于中产阶层的认识，但在中国的环境里，他和2.7亿名像他一样的进城务工人员属于一个向上移动的新兴消费者阶层。
• The essence of Thatcherism was to oppose the status quo and bet on freedom& odd, since as a prim, upwardly mobile striver, she was in some ways the embodiment of conservatism.
  撒切尔主义的核心是反对现状，力争自由&这看上去难以理解。因为作为一个循规蹈矩，并且不停向上的奋斗者，从某种程度上来说，她是保守主义的化身。
• Yet as pensioners tug one way, upwardly mobile young voters pull another.
  前有领养老金的人扯着后腿，后有地位渐显的年轻选民们拽着胳膊。
• Britain is not a truly fluid society; upwardly mobile.
  英国不是一个真正变化大的社会；向上变化的。