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

• It captures the cut-throat world of 1980s Wall Street, a time when anything could, and did, happen as the traditional way of doing business was turned on its head by upstarts such as KKR.
  该书描绘了上世纪80年代华尔街那个尔虞我诈的世界，那时，传统的经营方式被KKR这样的新贵完全颠覆，什么事都有可能发生，也确实发生了。
• Although privately livid about having been compelled to create powerful new competitors as a condition of entry into China, foreign companies have started to realise that, if they are not able to beat the upstarts, they may be better off joining them.
  尽管私下对为了进入中国市场而被迫创造了强大的新竞争对手感到震怒，但外国公司已经开始意识到，如果它们无法击败新起之秀，最好或许还是与它们为伍。
• Nim and his kind were trouble-making upstarts.
  尼姆和他那一帮人是专找麻烦的暴发户。
• The dotcom bust exposed that trend as an illusion, forcing the upstarts to serve their time in junior roles.
  互联网泡沫破灭表明这种趋势只是假象，迫使那些职场新人在初级职位上熬年份。
• 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。
• Stories of upstarts in China
  中国式暴富
• 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。
• The upstarts live high. The new rich aped the nobility.
  暴发户们生活奢侈。
• 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。
• Unfortunately for the upstarts, many big tech companies have co-opted open source themselves, to fill gaps in their own technology& and have added support for the code to their own business plans.
  对初创公司来说遗憾的是，很多大型科技公司已自己新上马了开源项目，来填补自身技术上的空白，并且已把开源代码支持服务加入到它们自己的商业计划中。