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1. This guy is a superficial yuppie with no intellect whatsoever.
这个家伙是个肤浅的雅皮士,没有任何智慧。

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2. The Porsche 911 reminds me of the worst parts of the yuppie era.
这辆保时捷911使我想起了雅皮士时代最糟糕的日子。

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3. National chains that once ignored Harlem now anticipate yuppie money and want pieces of this prime Manhattan real estate.
曾经对哈莱姆区视而不见的全国性连锁企业,现在期待着雅皮士的钱,还想要占据曼哈顿的黄金地产。

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4. If you're invited to a yuppie dinner party, don't be surprised if you're offered freshly-cooked insects as a first course.
如果你被邀请参加雅皮士的晚宴,第一道菜是新鲜烹制的昆虫的话不要感到惊讶。

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5. My friend is a yuppie.
我朋友是城市里一个雅皮士。

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6. Toyota Prius: upscale yuppie environmentalist.
丰田普锐斯:高端雅皮环保人士。

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7. This is a case of yuppie flu, which is contagious in offices.
这是蔓延于办公室的雅皮士流感的症状。

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8. The word yuppie is used to describe young, affluent professionals.
这个字是用来形容年轻又有钱的专业人士。

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9. Daniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas at Austin calls this a "yuppie kvetch".
德州大学奥斯汀分校的丹尼尔·哈默梅什将此现象称为“雅皮士的抱怨”。

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10. Aidan: It's too far. We'll never get a cab at this time. Anyway, that's a yuppie joint.
艾丹:太远了。我们现在已经叫不到计程车了。无论如何,雅皮愿意去那儿。

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11. Yuppie, depending upon who USES the term, is viewed as either a positive or a negative term.
雅皮一词被视为褒义还是贬义,取决于其使用者是谁。

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12. Starbucks will begin selling its "Seattle's Best" brand of below-yuppie-grade coffee in Burger Kings.
星巴克将在汉堡王(Burger Kings)售卖它“西雅图最好(Seattle ' s Best)”品牌亚雅皮士咖啡(below - yuppie - grade coffee)。

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13. The latest LVMH handbag on the arm of a Shanghai yuppie is a a year's earnings for a Shaanxi farmer.
上海的雅痞士手臂上挽着的最新款路易 威登手袋是陕西一个农民全年的收入。

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14. In red braces and huge stripes the Yuppie was born and also our love of excess that continued unabashed until recently.
雅皮士(城市职业阶层中的年轻人士)的红色条纹背带,以及我们那过多的爱情,到现在都还泰然自若的继续着。

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15. Playing a yuppie leading an empty life, Nicolas Cage hooks up with a a woman he believes to be a vampire (Jennifer Beals).
尼古拉斯。凯奇饰演了一位生活空虚的雅皮士,在片中,他约会了由詹妮弗。比尔斯扮演的瑞秋一角,并认为她是个吸血鬼。

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16. Yuppie is a 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s.
雅皮士是20世纪80年代和90年代初的一个术语,指有经济保障的20-30岁出头的中上阶层年轻人。

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17. Yet between them the village shopkeepers and the yuppie shoppers are changing the economies of both their home countries and the globe.
这些乡村店主和雅皮士购物者正改变着自己国家乃至全世界的经济。

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18. Last year after the stock market crash, a big joke on Wall Street was: What's the difference between a yuppie stockbroker and a pigeon?
去年股票市场崩毁以后,一个更大的笑话在华尔街流传:一位雅皮士股票经纪人和鸽子之间有什么区别?

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19. Yuppie children, mine among them, do not have to wait for the arrival of summer to titillate their palates with the exotic sensuality of figs.
那些雅皮士少年,包括我的孩子在内,都不必等到夏天到来便可享受到无花果那具有异国情调的美味。

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20. Yuppie children, mine among them, do not have to wait for the arrival of summer to titillate32 their palates33 with the exotic sensuality of figs.
那些雅皮士少年,包括我的孩子在内,都不必等到夏天到来便可享受到无花果那具有异国情调的美味。

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21. Rents, although still low, have jumped by 30% since 1999. The Swabian yuppie, with multiple offspring and a fondness for coffee bars, is a widely despised figure.
租金虽然还算低廉但是自1999年后已经跳跃式增长了30%,人数众多而又热爱咖啡馆的斯瓦比亚雅皮人士们也受到广大公众的鄙夷。

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22. YESTERDAY I ended a reporting trip through America's deep south in Atlanta, Georgia, where I booked a room at a relatively yuppie hotel near the airport in anticipation of an early flight.
昨天,我结束了南下佐治亚州亚特兰大的报道行程。因为回去的航班一大早起飞,于是我就在离机场不远的地方预订了一个比较高档一点的房间。

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23. While retailers say a top marketing weapon in urban China is to charge more for public consumption. That's because Chinese customers have different priorities than their American yuppie counterparts.
不过零售商们却说,在中国城市营销的一个最强有力的武器就是对大众消费品制定高价格,原因是中国消费者的侧重点与美国的雅皮士们不同。

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24. While retailers say a top marketing weapon in urban China is to charge more for public consumption. That's because Chinese customers have different priorities than their American yuppie counterparts.
不过零售商们却说,在中国城市营销的一个最强有力的武器就是对大众消费品制定高价格,原因是中国消费者的侧重点与美国的雅皮士们不同。

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