upstart: [16] An upstart is etymologically simply someone who has ‘started up’ – but start in its early sense ‘jump, spring, rise’. Start-up was an early alternative version of the word (‘That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow’, says Don John in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing 1599), but it did not survive the 17th century.
1550s, "one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu," also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of "jump, spring, rise." As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart "to spring to one's feet," attested from c. 1300.
双语例句
1. Many prefer a familiar authority figure to a young upstart.
很多人都更愿意跟自己熟悉的权威人物打交道，而不是一个年纪轻轻却自命不凡的家伙。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The hi - tech plastics come from a young company with Upstart has formed a joint venture.
高科技塑料是来自与新贵(Upstart)合资的一个年轻的公司.
来自互联网
3. You cannot marry that young upstart!
你可不能嫁给那个年轻的暴发户！
来自辞典例句
4. You can't marry that young upstart!
你可不能嫁给那个年轻的暴发户!
来自辞典例句
5. He was a new upstart and a gentleman of the first head.
