carpetbagger
英 ['kɑːpɪtbæɡə(r)]
美['kɑrpɪtbæɡɚ]
- n. 美国南北战争后利用南方不稳定的局势投机谋利的人
英英释义
- 1. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;
- "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"
实用场景例句
- He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known.
- 他来到华盛顿时，不是以寻常的外来政客的身份，而是作为一位名人。
柯林斯例句
双语例句
- 1. He had come to Washington, not as a common carpetbagger, but a man well known.
- 他来到华盛顿时，不是以寻常的外来政客的身份，而是作为一位名人。
来自柯林斯例句
英文词源
- carpetbagger (n.)
- also carpet-bagger, 1868, American English, scornful appellation for Northerners who went South after the fall of the CSA seeking private gain or political advancement. The name is based on the image of men arriving with all their worldly goods in a big carpetbag. Sense later extended to any opportunist from out of the area.
词态变化
复数: carpetbaggers;