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city slicker

市井小人,市井小民,城里人,市井之徒

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Often Disparaging.

    • : a term used to refer to a worldly, nattily dressed city dweller.

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Examples

  • Now he’s just another city slicker driving to the mountains from the Front Range.

  • They have become somewhat of a trendy vacation idea for city slickers eager to try on the Western lifestyle.

  • The normalization of new kinds of online interactions may still allow the sex lives of city slickers to rebound.

  • Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.

  • To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

  • Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.

  • “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

  • Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

  • This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.

  • When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

  • You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.

  • Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.

  • The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.