yuppie

英[\'jʌpɪ]
美[\'jʌpɪ]

意思解释

n. (美)雅皮士(属于中上阶层的年轻专业人士)

变化形式

复数: yuppies
易混淆的单词: Yuppie

中文词源

yuppie 雅皮士(城市中收入高,生活优裕的年青人)

缩写自young urban professional.

用法例句

And we 've done the yuppie thing .
一起做雅皮士的事情。
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。
Soon , in fact , the word " yuppie " disappeared .
实际上,“雅皮士”这个词很快便消失了。
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。
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”。