carpetbagger
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈkɑː.pɪtˌbæɡ.ər]
- 美式音标 [ˈkɑːr.pətˌbæɡ.ɚ]
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- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 外来政客；（美国内战后去南方）投机钻营的北方人；投机分子，外来投机分子；在购房互助协会开立账户者
英汉例句
- After the Civil war the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south.
美国内战以后，北方的外来者试图控制南方。 - 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.
我会和那些北佬投机家们交朋友的，我会运用他们自己制定的游戏规则来击败他们，你要和我一起来击败他们。 - "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.
“但是他们在这儿的所作所为更像一个投机者，”他说“他们仅仅关心表面文章，玩一场游戏，消失，然后两年后回来。
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.