upwardly mobile

英 [ˌʌpwədli ˈməʊbaɪl]

美 [ˌʌpwərdli ˈmoʊbl]

adj.  走向上层社会的; 走向富裕的; 步步高升的

牛津词典

adj.

• 走向上层社会的；走向富裕的；步步高升的
  moving towards a higher social position, usually in which you become richer
  1. upwardly mobile immigrant groups
     步步高升的移民群体
  2. an upwardly mobile lifestyle
     日益阔绰的生活方式

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (在社会地位上)向上流动的,往上爬的
  If you describe someone asupwardly mobile, you mean that they are moving, have moved, or are trying to move to a higher social position.
  1. The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters.
     该党一直不能吸引那些追求更高社会地位的选民。
  2. The upwardly mobileare people who are upwardly mobile.
     (在社会地位上)向上流动的人，往上爬的人
  3. ...the large detached houses of the upwardly mobile with their double garages and array of cars.
     处于上升阶层的人士所拥有的一栋栋独立的、带双车库的大房子和一排一排的轿车

双语例句

• Look up!; the music surged up; the fragments flew upwards; prices soared upwards; upwardly mobile.
  向上看；音乐令人激情荡漾；碎片漫天飞扬；价格暴涨；向上升的，有上升趋势的。
• Hardly anyone had seen a young upwardly mobile professional before, but now they were everywhere.
  以前，几乎没有人见过社会地位处于上升趋势的年轻专业人士，但现在到处都是他们的身影。
• A young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s.
  有上升趋势的年青专业人士；40岁以下流行于十九世纪八十年代。
• These elements include neo-liberals, neo-conservatives, authoritarian populists, and a particular fraction of the upwardly mobile professional and managerial new middle class.
  该四个群体分别是：新自由主义、新保守主义、专制的民粹主义以及作为正呈向上流动趋势的专业和管理新中产阶级中的一个特殊部分。
• The meeting attracted upwardly mobile professional and political women.
  这次会议吸引了积极进取的职业和从政妇女。
• Labour has lost the recruits once provided by the smokestack industries and a Conservative membership card no longer bestows social cachet on the upwardly mobile middle classes.
  工党已经失去了曾由传统工业输送的成员，保守党成员的身份牌也不再能给有望向社会上层流动的中产阶层赋予社会声望。
• This is at a time when all indications suggest that upwardly mobile and newly prosperous Chinese have the same powerful urge to own a car as consumers in the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
  各项指标都显示，日益增多的中国新贵们，同美国，日本和欧洲的消费者一样，都迫切地想拥有自己的汽车。
• Building restrictions in vibrant cities and their nearby, exclusive suburbs prevent upwardly mobile people from relocating to places that offer the most economic opportunity.
  具体来说就是，政府限制人们在繁华城市及其周边专属郊区修建住宅后，正在向上流动的社会人群没法自由移居到发展机会更好的地方。
• Even the numbering of the floors was a bit of upwardly mobile sleight of hand, calibrated to enhance the perception of what the developer, the Related Companies, marketed as Five Star Living.
  就连楼层的编号方式也别出心裁，强化了开发商RelatedCompanies提出的五星级居住环境的营销概念。
• Nokia weathered criticism from investors that it was expending too much effort on high-end smartphones while its rival ate into its lucrative business selling expensive 'dumb' phones to upwardly mobile people around the world.
  他们说，在竞争对手侵蚀其颇为赚钱的业务、向全球社会经济地位不断提高的用户销售昂贵的傻瓜手机时，诺基亚却在高端智能手机上花费了太多的精力。