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

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英汉例句

双语例句

• 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。
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原声例句

• 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.

权威例句

• It also played bad cop, in part by painting protesters as carpetbaggers.
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词组短语

短语

• The Carpetbaggers 江湖男女
• Carpetbaggers with something to sell 投机客正有货要卖

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (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

柯林斯英英字典

• 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.

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