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单词 ugly american
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Ugly (or ugly) American
b. Ugly (or ugly) American (in allusion to the title of the book: see quot. 1958), an American who behaves offensively abroad.
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1958 W. J. Lederer & E. L. Burdick (title) The ugly American.
1965 Atlantic May 152 A host of odd and funny foreigners: bogus Russian counts, semi-aristocratic Slavic ladies, German officers, and an early type of the ugly American abroad.
1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 9 Mar. 76 I don't think we were Ugly Americans; perhaps just unaware, or Unlettered.
1980 D. Williams Murder for Treasure x. 100 That awful man..thinks you're swinging the deal and he needs Edgar to blow it by acting the Ugly American.
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