carpetbagger
carpetbagger 英 [ˈkɑ:pɪtbægə(r)] 美 [ˈkɑrpɪtbægə(r)]
n. 美国南北战争后利用南方不稳定的局势投机谋利的人
名词复数:carpetbaggers
- An outsider who pretends to be an insider is a carpetbagger; he's a person who tries to take advantage of a group by joining it only for his own personal benefit.
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- n. 美国南北战争后利用南方不稳定的局势投机谋利的人
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1. Now that the carpetbagger government has really gotten control of Georgia, there's no telling what may happen.
现在北方冒险家的政府真正控制了佐治亚，很难说会再发生什么大事。
- carpetbagger (n.) also carpet-bagger, 1868, American English, scornful appellation for Northern whites who set up residence in the South after the fall of the Confederate states seeking private gain or political advancement. The name is based on the image of men arriving with all their worldly goods in a big carpetbag. Sense later extended to any opportunist from out of the area (such as wildcat bankers or territorial officers in the West).
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