posh
[pɔʃ]
adj.漂亮的, 时髦的, 上等阶层的
例句与用法:
Depending on who he is talking to, Harry can flip over from a cockney accent to a posh cultured one.
根据说话的对像,哈里可以从说伦敦方言突然转为说优雅而有教养的语言。
词形变化:
a.
【口】漂亮的; 优雅的; 第一流的
posh[pɔʃ]adj.1.■[口语]2.■豪华时髦的;优雅的;漂亮的3.■极好的;第一流的,高档的vt.1.■使变得漂亮,使变得时髦:to posh oneself up把自己打扮得漂漂亮亮interj.1.■(表示轻蔑)呸!adv.1.■漂亮地;时髦地
poshposh[pɔʃ]adj.[英俚]1.■舒适的; 时髦的; 漂亮的, 优雅的; 最好的; 第一流的2.■豪华的; 奢侈的a posh apartment高雅的公寓
词性变化posh[pɔʃ]vt.1.■把... 打扮起来(up)They poshed themselves up for the party.他们打扮起来, 准备参加晚会。posh[pɔʃ]int.1.■[表示蔑视]呸
继承用法posh-lookingadj.1.■漂亮的poshismn.1.■奢侈主义poshlyadv.poshnessn.
(informal)(非正式)
adjective
- elegant or stylishly luxurious
优雅的;时髦的,豪华的
a posh Munich hotel.
一家优雅的慕尼黑酒店。
I'll have to look posh.
我将不得不看起来时髦一点。
■(chiefly Brit.)typical of or belonging to the upper class of society
(主 英)上流人士的,上流社会的
she had a posh accent.
她有上流人士的口音。
- (Brit.)in an upper-class way
(英)上流人士的方式
trying to talk posh.
试图像上流人士那样说话。
- [mass noun](Brit.)the quality or state of being elegant, stylish, or upper class
(英)优雅;时髦;上流社会水准
we finally bought a colour TV, which seemed the height of posh.
我们终于买了一台彩电,似乎够得上上流社会水准。
poshly
adverb
poshness
noun
语源
- early 20th cent.: perhaps from slang posh, denoting a dandy. There is no evidence to support the folk etymology that posh is formed from the initials of port out starboard home (referring to the practice of using the more comfortable accommodation, out of the heat of the sun, on ships between England and India)
posh something up
- (Brit.)smarten something up
(英)打扮,使变得时髦,使变得漂亮
the sealing wax with which she poshed up Muriel's dancing shoes.
她用以来擦亮穆里尔的舞鞋的密封蜡。
posh
■"They" are "the people at the top", "the higher-ups", the people who give you the dole, call you up, tell you to go to war, fine you, "talk posh", "are all twisters really".
"他们"是"上流社会人物", 是"达官显贵"。他们给你一点施舍,动员你去服役,让你去打仗,调教你,"说起话来像上层社会那样咬文嚼字", 事实上他们"全是骗子"。
■In April 2008 Mr Khin signed a deal with a Chinese company to turn the lake area into a posh residential and recreation development, to be dubbed the “New City of the East”.
2008年4月,金先生同中国一家公司签订了合同,计划把湖区改建成豪华居住休闲区,号之“东方新城”。
■The term POSH was coined because a group of highly respected web designers wanted to have a short mnemonic to easily capture the essence of the concept of Semantic HTML.
POSH的产生,来自一群令人追崇的网页设计师,他们希望能够写出简短、易记,能够使人一看就知道其意义的语义化HTML。
■"Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham (L) and the model Caprice Bourret.
[Daily Mail] 怎样才是最完美胸部或者见仁见智。
■I ' m here with H ugo Posh, the producer of Adult Education...
|我和成人教育片制作人 雨果波什在一起...
■" They" are" the people at the top", " the higher - ups", the people who give you the dole, call you up, tell you to go to war, fine you, " talk posh", " are all twisters really" .
“他们”是“上流社会人物”,是“达官显贵”。他们给你一点施舍,动员你去服役,让你去打仗,调教你,“说起话来像上层社会那样咬文嚼字”,事实上他们“全是骗子”。
■“In marathon sessions that spanned the course of several days at the posh Esmeralda Resort &Spa in Indian Wells, Calif., HP's leadership hashed out HP's long-term strategy.
”这段话中,“marathon”和 “hashed”两个词充分显示了消息来源是对公司目前战略和管理存在极大不满的人士。
■A man lay sprawled across three entire seats in the posh theatre.
一个豪华影院里,一名男子横躺在整整三个座位上。
■Some of his fellow airmen hounded Shaw for autographs while others mocked his posh accent, to which Shaw would retaliate with an excellent and unflattering imitation of their less refined speech.
一些战友缠着肖要签名,另一些则对他过于优雅的口音大肆嘲笑,不过肖会立即惟妙惟肖而不怀好意地模仿他们不那么优雅的谈吐作为回敬。
■A man and a woman walk into a very posh Rodeo Drive store. "Show the lady your finest mink!" the fellow exclaims.
一位男士和一位女士走进一家罗迪欧大道(位于洛杉矶,译者)上的华丽的商店。"给这位女士试穿上好的貂皮大衣!"这位男士底气十足地说。
■One was that haute couture, hitherto available only to the very rich or vicariously through magazines and newspapers, should be sold worldwide in ready-to-wear shops at a fraction of the posh price.
一项是迄今为止,仍只有富甲贵胄才能买得起或者通过杂志报纸代理经销的高级订制女装,在这些高级时装中,只有极少数在全世界的成衣门店内以相对低廉的价格出售.
■And for one day last week I was a plumber too- joining all three former white collar workers at their London firm to investigate the peculiar phenomenon of" posh plumbers".
上周某日,我也当了一天水管工,在上述三位前白领的伦敦公司与他们会合,对奇特的“时髦水管工”现象进行调查。
■a posh accent/voice
上等人的腔调/嗓音
■But now victory gardens are springing up in backyards, school grounds and even on front lawns in posh neighbourhoods.
不过现在“胜利菜园”却如雨后春笋,出现在家庭场院、学校操场,甚至是那些时髦住宅区的草坪里。
■But on arrival at posh Morros Lodge in Baja California, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing roles...except, possibly, ham actor Mark Cardigan.
不过,当他们来到美丽的加州的莫罗斯旅店,丹发现表明富有而粗心的旅客各怀鬼心。除了,也许只有,蹩脚演员马克.卡迪刚。
■Why Ethiopia?"In 1984," he said, "when I was a chef at a posh private dining club in Los Angeles, I was distraught when the owners refused to hold a benefit for victims of a tragic famine in Ethiopia.
为什么是埃塞俄比亚?他说:"在1984年,当我在洛杉矶的一家高级私人餐饮俱乐部做厨师的时候,当那些餐馆店主们拒绝为埃塞俄比亚的一次悲惨饥荒中的难民募捐的时让感到很痛心。
■Moving from Toxteth to a "frightfully posh" part of Cheshire, her mother came "face to face with the British class structure".
从托迪斯搬到柴郡一个“使人害怕的豪华的”区域,她的母亲“与英国阶级结构打了个照面”。
■They live in the posh part of town.
他们住在高等住宅区.
■They live in a posh part of town.
他们住在高级住宅区。
■He take us for lunch to one of the posh restaurant in town.
他带我们到本城最高档的一家饭馆里吃午餐。
■A documentary he saw about Mustique chronicled the posh playground for the likes of Mick Jagger and Princess Margare nott.
他看了一部涉及西印度群岛的纪录片,那里是滚石乐队主唱米克"贾格尔(MickJagger)和英国Britain玛格丽特公主(PrincessMargarenott)那样的人物经常光顾的时髦去处。
■The standard is the customers' recognition and scientific test methods, which is the quality guarantee of the Posh people to make the driving industry and become the top manufacturer in the world.
以客户欣赏的目光为标准加之科学的检测手段,是他们打造强劲工业,成为世界顶尖级制造商的品质保障。
■But Posh is not worried about glamorous Californian women throwing themselves at her hunky hubby.
但是维多利亚并不担心加利福尼亚的漂亮女人会争相投向贝壳的怀抱。
■You're wearing a nice ring. You're wearing a posh tie. May I borrow some money? How much do you need?
你戴了一只很漂亮的戒指。你打了一条高雅的领带。我可以借点钱吗?你需要多少钱?
■You're wearing a posh tie.
你打了一条高雅的领带。
■See, hugo posh isn't just tits. He isn't just ass.
你看, hugo Posh不仅仅只是乳头. 他也不仅仅是个屁股
■See, hugo posh is not just tits. He is not just ass
你看,hugo posh不仅仅只是乳头.他也不仅仅是个屁股
■You look very posh in your new suit .
你穿上新衣服漂亮极了.
■Kerry Tests Waters on Vacation in Posh Nantucket
克里在楠塔基特旅游胜地试玩水上运动
■Well the beckham's wife "posh", she can go to do all the shopping and also for moive as well, thats why they want to be the neighbours with Tom Cruise.This is madness.
其实感情也有保险,一样要在无风无浪的日子开始供款,平日待对方好一点,到出现问题时还可保一保。
■the hotbed of all that is super chic and scrumptiously posh,
别致奢华的温床。
■A 2 minute bell at half-time could be introduced (just like the theatre, how posh!
半场时,有可能会(像在剧场一样)采用2分钟的铃声(多么优雅!)
■Even for the posh villas inside any city, those living within them suffer from an energy movement that wars upon the field and will ultimately make those choosing to remain in such circumstances ill.
即便是任何城市里的优雅别墅区,那些生活在其中的人们,也遭受着一个在能量场中交战的能量运动折磨,将最终让这些环境中的人们罹患疾病。
■One of the largest jewel heists in history. In Paris, armed robbers, some disguised as women, snatched 108 million dollars worth of diamond rings, necklaces and watches from this posh boutique .
又是史上一大珠宝抢劫案。在巴黎,一伙持械抢劫犯(其中一些打扮成女性),从一豪华精品店抢劫了价值10亿8千万的珠宝,包括钻石戒指,项链和手表。
■Another rising trend will be "posh camping" in teepees or semi-permanent structures with built-in bathrooms.
另外一个上升的趋势是在圆锥形帐篷里的或者是半永久的带内置卫生间的建筑物”豪华露营“。
■One of the largest jewel heists in history. In Paris, armed robbers, some disguised as women, snatched 108 million dollars worth of diamond rings, necklaces and watches from this posh boutique.
史上最大的珠宝抢劫案。在巴黎,一群持械歹徒,其中几个打扮成妇女模样,从这家豪华商店劫走了价值1.08亿美元的钻石戒指,项链以及手表。
■Anyway, after dinner, we moved to another posh venue where one of the other Gemini babies had booked off a private section in the back where we spent the rest of the night chatting with friends old and new.
吃晚饭以后,我们就转移到了一个极好的地方,过生日的其中一个朋友事先定好的一个私人会所,我们就可以呆在那里和新朋友或者老朋友聊聊天,吃吃东西。
■And a posh multifunctional hall.
和一个非常豪华的多功能厅。
■One normal Monday morning, an ordinary salary man wakes up in a posh hotel room with no recollection of how he got there.
在一个普通的星期一早晨,一位普通的小职员在一个高档宾馆的客房中醒来,他不记得怎么会出现在那里。
■In another weirdly depressing experiment, researchers knocked on doors in a posh neighbourhood trying to get people to put a giant notice on their lawns saying “please drive carefully”.
在另一个古怪郁闷实验中,研究人员在一个高档社区挨家敲门,试图让人们在各自草坪上竖起一个写着“请小心驾驶”的大布告牌。
■Before arriving home and taking the stroll, the president and first lady dined out for nearly two hours at a posh Georgetown restaurant.
在回到家并散步之前,总统和第一夫人在一个时尚豪华的乔治敦餐厅就餐近两个小时。
■"Posh venues like the new multiplex in Mumbai [Bombay], [are] part of a chain replacing local theaters.
在孟买,像这样新兴起的多元化华丽会场是当地剧场的一系列取代物的一部分。
■It's cocktail hour in Rome's posh shopping district, but women at one trendy bar are trying a new kind of aperitif: perfume
在意大利罗马繁华的购物街,当大多数人聚在酒吧享受鸡尾酒的时候,在一间新潮的酒吧里,女士们品味的却是另一道"开胃酒":香水。
■It's cocktail hour in Rome's posh shopping district, but women at one trendy bar are trying a new kind of aperitif: perfume.
在意大利罗马繁华的购物街,当大多数人聚在酒吧享受鸡尾酒的时候,在一间新潮的酒吧里,女士们品味的却是另一道"开胃酒":香水。
■It's cocktail hour in Rome's posh shopping district,but women at one trendy bar are trying a new kind of aperitif: perfume.
在意大利罗马繁华的购物街,当大多数人聚在酒吧享受鸡尾酒的时候,在一间新潮的酒吧里,女士们品味的却是另一道“开胃酒”:香水。
■A bid for Taittinger, a posh champagne brand, by United Breweries, a Bangalore-based booze giant, has also caused outrage.
在泰坦瑞高级香槟酒品牌的竞标中,总部设在班加罗尔的酿酒巨人联合酿酒集团也招来众愤。
■Trapped off the coast of Maine, he was shipped to Manhattan and dumped into a tank at a posh Upper East Side seafood restaurant.
在缅因州海岸被人捕获之后,他被运到了曼哈顿,倒入位于上东区的一家高档海鲜馆的水池里。
■The chipper was posh, too: scampi on the menu on the wall behind the counter.
在计算器后面的墙上贴着印有挪威海择虾的菜单。
■The 160-year-old complex fills about a city block in the center of a popular business and entertainment district. Nearby, residents frequent posh bars, art galleries and high-end restaurants.
在香港繁华的商业跟娱乐区的中心,这片有160年历史的建筑占了整整一条街区。附近有不少豪华的酒吧、画廊与高级餐厅。
■A 10ft boa constrictor has been captured after popping up in the loos of a posh block of flats in Manchester.
大河网讯 外电上周报道:英国曼彻斯特一幢豪华公寓楼的洗手间内发现一条足有10英尺长的大蟒蛇。