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

• Levi Strauss, the jeans company, no longer figures in the global top 100 after losing its place as a premium brand to upstarts.
  牛仔裤制造商LeviStrauss由于将高端品牌的地位让给了后起之秀，因此不再跻身全球百强品牌之列。
• Throughout the year, networks ( and now upstarts like streaming-media services) are rolling out series that seem meaty enough to merit at least a first round of sampling and debate.
  在这一整年里，各大电视台（现在流媒体等新兴平台也加入其中）推出了似乎内容足够有料、至少值得头一轮品鉴和辩论的剧集。
• 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。
• Crowning "stars" among literary upstarts is killing them.
  把所谓“明星”捧做文唐袈贵即是抹杀他们。
• Although privately livid about having been compelled to create powerful new competitors as a condition of entry into China, foreign companies have started to realise that, if they are not able to beat the upstarts, they may be better off joining them.
  尽管私下对为了进入中国市场而被迫创造了强大的新竞争对手感到震怒，但外国公司已经开始意识到，如果它们无法击败新起之秀，最好或许还是与它们为伍。
• But Hefner says he does not resent the upstarts that made his once raunchy publication look tame.
  不过，赫夫纳说，他不恨使他那一度淫秽的杂志显得平淡的这些新的暴发户。
• Their instinct is to protect industries and companies that already exist, not the upstarts that would destroy them.
  政府的本职是保护现有的产业和公司，而不是那些将它们赶尽杀绝的新贵。
• 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。
• 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。
• A few years ago, the answer likely involved Linux, Red Hat, MySQL and other disruptive open source upstarts.
  几年前，答案可能包括Linux，RedHat，MySQL和其它一些小有颠覆性成就的开源软件。