carpetbagger
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈkɑː.pɪtˌbæɡ.ər]
- 美式音标 [ˈkɑːr.pətˌbæɡ.ɚ]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 外來政客；（美國內戰後去南方）投機鑽營的北方人；投機分子，外來投機分子；在購房互助協會開立賬戶者
英汉例句
- After the Civil war the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south.
美國內戰以後，北方的外來者試圖控制南方。 - I'm going to make friends with the Yankee carpetbaggers now and I'll beat them at their own game, and you'll beat them with me.
我會和那些北佬投機家們交朋友的，我會運用他們自己制定的遊戯槼則來擊敗他們，你要和我一起來擊敗他們。 - "But they come through here like carpetbaggers, " he added. " They just kind of show up on the scene, do a game, disappear, and then come back two years later.
“但是他們在這兒的所作所爲更像一個投機者，”他說“他們僅僅關心表麪文章，玩一場遊戯，消失，然後兩年後廻來。
blog.sina.com.cn - Many of the new governors and state officials were carpetbaggers from outside the state.
- Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers.
- They had a special name for them: carpetbaggers.
- It also played bad cop, in part by painting protesters as carpetbaggers.
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英英字典
- (POLITICS) someone who tries to be elected as a politician in a place away from their home because they think there is a greater chance of succeeding there
- (MONEY) someone who invests in a financial organization that is owned by its members, in order to make a profit if it is sold
- If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.