英 [ˌsəʊʃl ˈklaɪmə(r)]
社交攀登者：试图在社交界获得更高社会地位或在时尚社会中获得认可的人。
social climber //
可数名词 You describe someone as a social climber when they try to get accepted into a higher social class by becoming friendly with people who belong to that class. 攀附上流社会的人
That Rob was a snob and a social climber could not be denied.
那个罗布是个势利小人，喜欢攀龙附凤——无可否定。
someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
同义词： climber
... 上流社会的 class ; genteel 上流社会者 social climber 半上流社会 Monde ...
... mean吝啬，小气 social climber追求更高社会地位的人，向上爬的人 devotion热爱 ...
... Social skills 社交能力 Social climber 想方设法想进入上流社会的人，削尖脑袋向上爬的人，趋炎附势的人。 Social conscience 社会责任感 ...
That Rob was a snob and a social climber could not be denied.
那个罗布是个势利小人，喜欢攀龙附凤——无可否定。
Bob's always been a social climber.
鲍勃总是在社会上拼命向上爬。
Carol is certainly a social climber.
卡罗尔确实是一个想往上爬的人。
The grotesque comedy features a social climber who buys dead serfs from the nobles who owned them.
What are the ultimate rules of the social climber?
FORBES: The Social Climber's Handbook: The Murderous State of Womanhood
Coming on the heels of The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), in which a financially strapped and roguish outsider tries vainly to find a place in English society, Vanity Fair paints on a much broader canvass and finds the ultimate social climber in the talented, lovely and ever-conniving Becky Sharp.