yuppie
发音
英 ['jʌpɪ]
美 [ˈjʌpi]
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- n.
- （美）雅皮士（属于中上阶层的年轻专业人士）
单词词源
yuppie 雅皮士（城市中收入高，生活优裕的年青人）
缩写自young urban professional.
双语例句
- 1. And we 've done the yuppie thing .
- 一起做雅皮士的事情。
- 2. You begin to see why people call this the female yuppie heroin .
- 你开始理解为什么人们把这叫做女性雅皮士的海洛因。
- 3. Soon , in fact , the word " yuppie " disappeared .
- 实际上，“雅皮士”这个词很快便消失了。
- 4. Yet between them the village shopkeepers and the yuppie shoppers are changing the economies of both their home countries and the globe .
- 这些乡村店主和雅皮士购物者正改变着自己国家乃至全世界的经济。
- 5. Despite debilitating symptoms , patients have been accused of suffering from an imaginary illness : " yuppie flu " .
- 尽管有衰弱的症状，病人们却被认为是无病呻吟：所谓“雅皮士流感”。