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wannabe

/won-uh-bee, waw-nuh‐/US // ˈwɒn əˌbi, ˈwɔ nə‐ //UK // (ˈwɒnəˌbiː) //

崇拜者,觊觎者,想当演员,想要的人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural wan·na·bes.Informal.

    • : one who aspires, often vainly, to emulate another's success or attain eminence in some area.

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Examples

  • California's gubernatorial recall election has become a casting call for wannabes seeking a giant earned-media opportunity.

  • Meanwhile, Khazein allegedly researched routes the wannabe kidnappers could take from her Brooklyn home to the water to Venezuela and from there to Tehran.

  • Unrated during the pandemicKnots of wannabe diners clog the entrance of what sounds like a nightclub but looks like the feedery it is, what with a big circular bar and servers crisscrossing the expanse with trays of food and not a little drama.

  • With that, Franklin became not only a “flee,” but a wannabe cop killer, transformed by a radio call that described him as trying to hit an officer.

  • He began shooting back-roads Alabama — notably signs and buildings — with a Brownie in 1958, the same year Andy Warhol first trained his Polaroid on New York celebs and wannabe “superstars.”

  • What this essentially means is that superman-wannabe white people do not see my people as their equal.

  • Doane tweeted, “the film does make fun of Wannabe Berean unimaginative Christians who need to lighten up.”

  • Mike Huckabee, the Fox News host and wannabe presidential contender, was governor of my home state, Arkansas, until 2007.

  • He was just another wannabe messiah who ended up on the wrong side of the authorities.

  • When the media show the hyper actions of these wannabe soldiers, public perception changes.