carpetbaggers

carpetbaggers

美 [?kɑrp?t?bæɡ?r] 　英 [?kɑ?(r)p?t?bæɡ?(r)]

• n.投機牟利者
• 網絡投機客；北方人

詞形變化

復數：carpetbaggers  

英漢解釋

n.

1. 投機牟利者

英英解釋

n.	1. someone who gets involved in politics in a place away from where they live, because they think they will be more successful there 2. someone from the North of the U.S. who went to the South to get political or financial advantages after the Civil War, especially in a dishonest or immoral way

例句

Some critics in Silicon Valley are still skeptical of Hollywood people, whom they view as carpetbaggers overestimating their worth.

于此同時，硅谷的一些評論家還是對好萊塢人持有懷疑態度，他們認為好萊塢人不過是些謀取利益的人，他們高估了他們的自身價值。