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

• 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。
• While scorning the hoopla of traditional brands, the upstarts are racing to build brands of their own.
  虽然看不起传统商标太过吵闹，新贵们正迅速地建立属于自己的牌子。
• 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。
• The upstarts live high. The new rich aped the nobility.
  暴发户们生活奢侈。
• Stories of upstarts in China
  中国式暴富
• And even if the upstarts keep stealing marginal customers, the far superior networks of the incumbents should help them retain the highest-value customers.
  即便后起之秀不断夺走边际用户，老牌运营商优越得多的网络应当有助于它们留住最高价值的客户。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is also every reason to believe that the current recession will produce lots of upstarts.
  我们非常有理由相信，目前的衰退会催生很多新企业。