toff

1 Is he a sociopath or merely an entitled toff?

2 We might even wind up having tea and cakes at the Savoy Cafe with the nobs and toffs of Limerick.

3 The toff who had bought him a drink after the fight and patted him on the shoulder had used those words.

这是那个在斗拳之后请他去喝酒的家伙，拍着他的肩膀对他说的。

4 In the British military, by contrast, the lack of this shared linguistic medium reflects the basic class division of the army, between officers and men, toffs and proles.

5 Or heat them, so the poor old toffs shake as well as rattle and bumble, while haughty ancestors from happier times look down disapprovingly from family portraits on the staircase.

6 Their biggest contribution to rock history might be as the first artists to get busted by the kind of people who maintain that toffs can't rock.

7 Now toffs are really only good for a certain kind of television show.

8 Though he's blue-blooded, he's not one of our own Bullingdon toffs, already blessed with every advantage that life can bestow.

9 That spirit alarmed and discomfited many Europeans, toff and peasant alike.

10 An uncoordinated toff with a memory like a cravat who gangles through life with his fingers in his ears while his ghastly family re-enact various civil wars over the silverware.

11 Among the original candidates for the role of an MI6 toff were such war horses of Hollywood’s British colony as David Niven and James Mason.

12 British vehicular stereotypes range from white delivery vans for the working class to Range Rovers -- dubbed “Chelsea Tractors” for a tony London neighborhood – for elitist “toffs.”

13 John is still into Bulgaria and piano-playing, has survived a nasty fall from a horse, and resents having been typecast as a Tory toff.

14 Publishers were toffs, booksellers trade, and printers the artisan champions of liberty.

15 Patrick, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the TV adaptation, is a tortured toff — abuse victim, drug addict, fading aristocrat — but also an arch observer of his circle, which happens to be the Diana-era Tatler set.

16 While above, the toffs are beginning the long slow slide towards irrelevance.

17 One minute he’d be talking like a toff, and the next like a cop.

18 Murdoch was immediately asked about his relationship to politics and British "toffs", a reference to his regular attacks on Britain's gilded establishment, which the Australian-born tycoon has lampooned as snobbish and inefficient.

19 Brief flashbacks to the humiliations of his trial and the balm of opening-night adulation — represented by a sea of ecstatically applauding Victorian toffs — interrupt these peregrinations and underline the tragedy of his fall.

20 It's good to see some realism, though, because duelling was just socially licensed murder for toffs.

1 上流人

nob

2 纨绔子弟

fop Hooray Henry blood playboy

3 上流人士

quality posho

4 富豪

magnate plutocrat jet-setter nabob

5 有钱人

have plutocrat nob

6 纨裤子

dandy Buck gallant popinjay

7 精心打扮

prink

8 绅士

gentlemanly sir gentleman rye gent esquire gentility caballero signor sahib FFV gentry senor Mynheer

9 花花公子

beauish dudish fashionmonger playboy dandy fop popinjay coxcomb man-about-town man about town Beau Brummell blood rake wastrel nut spark buck jack dude macaroni beau knut chappy boulevardier chappie princox musk cat powder puff play boy