| 释义 |
ˈyuppiedom colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Also yuppydom.
[f. yuppie + -dom.]
The condition or fact of being a yuppie; the domain of yuppies; yuppies as a class.
1984MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour 4 June, What a curve, that from hippiedom to Yuppiedom. Is it really possible that these Yuppies are the same people who were the counterculture? 1984Washington Post 20 June a21/5 Yuppiedom does not conduce to a realistic view of the human condition or of American society. 1985Sunday Tel. 26 May 11/6 Occasionally they [sc. Yuppies] are overcome by the instinct to perpetuate Yuppiedom with their little Yuppies. 1987New Musical Express 14 Feb. 42/4 Real yuppiedom is an absence more than a presence—an absence of social conscience, of tolerance and of depth. 1988Guardian 13 Apr. 20/2 ‘There was a great rush into the City in the early to mid-Eighties,’ reflects Mark, ‘a great boom in yuppiedom.’ |