yuppie

yuppie

英音 ['jʌpɪ] 美音 [ˈjʌpɪ]

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基本翻译或解释：

n. （美）雅皮士（属于中上阶层的年轻专业人士）

词源相关：

复数： yuppies易混淆的单词： Yuppie

详细解释：

yuppie 雅皮士（城市中收入高，生活优裕的年青人） 缩写自young urban professional.

用法与例句：

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”。