upstart: [16] An upstart is etymologically simply someone who has ‘started up’ – but start in its early sense ‘jump, spring, rise’. Start-up was an early alternative version of the word (‘That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow’, says Don John in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 1599), but it did not survive the 17th century.
upstart (n.)
1550s, "one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu," also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of "jump, spring, rise." As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart "to spring to one's feet," attested from c. 1300.
雙語例句
1. Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.
很多人都更愿意跟自己熟悉的權威人物打交道，而不是一個年紀輕輕卻自命不凡的家伙。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The hi - tech plastics come from a young company with Upstart has formed a joint venture.
高科技塑料是來自與新貴(Upstart)合資的一個年輕的公司.
來自互聯網
3. You cannot marry that young upstart!
你可不能嫁給那個年輕的暴發戶！
來自辭典例句
4. You can't marry that young upstart!
你可不能嫁給那個年輕的暴發戶!
來自辭典例句
5. He was a new upstart and a gentleman of the first head.