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单词 social climber
释义
social climberˌsocial ˈclimber noun [countable] Examples
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  • He's got to be the biggest social climber of all time.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto move into a higher social class
· Hillary was bright and ambitious and wanted to move up in the world.· Education, he believed, was the only way that anyone could move up in the world.
someone who is upwardly mobile is in the process of moving into a higher class, especially because they have a well-paid job: · a highly educated, upwardly mobile young woman· The dating agency specializes in finding partners for the young and upwardly mobile.
someone who wants very much to move into a higher social class, and tries to do this by becoming friendly with people who have more money and power than they do: · The new private schools cater for the children of social climbers rather than those of the old upper classes.· The hotel lobby was full of the usual hangers-on and social climbers.
someone who tries to get accepted into a higher social class by becoming friendly with people who belong to that class – used to show disapproval
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