opportunist
投机分子,投机者,机会主义者,投机取巧者
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- : a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles: He is an extreme opportunist and always thinks the ends justify the means.
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They’re opportunists who claim to have found straightforward solutions to incredibly complicated problems and then sell those solutions to vulnerable people.
For those who are simply opportunists or who actually believe the unfounded conspiracy theories, it’s a no-brainer.
Unsurprisingly, an unprecedented array of opportunists emerged.
Kardashian, ever the opportunist, no doubt surveyed the gluteus landscape and wanted in on the cultural “conversation.”
So is Sam Lutfi a legitimate manager or just a nasty opportunist?
Ever the shape-shifter and opportunist, he ended his career as a high official in the very empire he had once helped defeat.
Because, above all things he is the consummate ambitious opportunist.
Hamad is the consummate survivor-opportunist, having built an empire out of blowing sand and natural gas, Allah and ambition.
It has often and in many cases occurred to me to wonder at the mistakes men make;Was Aristaenus a traitor or a wise Opportunist?
Montezuma was therefore an opportunist, like Cortes, but there was a vast difference between them.
Although this presupposes a continuous struggle, it is not a revolutionary but an "opportunist" struggle.
He was a master of statecraft and an opportunist in politics.
The King was the opportunist, Olof the idealist, and Gert the "impossibilist."