carpetbagger
常見例句
- After the Civil war the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south.
美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)以后,北方的外來者試圖控制南方。 - I'm going to make friends with the Yankee carpetbaggers now and I'll beat them at their own game, and you'll beat them with me.
我會和那些北佬投機家們交朋友的,我會運用他們自己制定的游戲規(guī)則來擊敗他們,你要和我一起來擊敗他們。 - "But they come through here like carpetbaggers, " he added. " They just kind of show up on the scene, do a game, disappear, and then come back two years later.
“但是他們在這兒的所作所為更像一個投機者,”他說“他們僅僅關心表面文章,玩一場游戲,消失,然后兩年后回來。
blog.sina.com.cn - Many of the new governors and state officials were carpetbaggers from outside the state.
- Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers.
- They had a special name for them: carpetbaggers.
- It also played bad cop, in part by painting protesters as carpetbaggers.
FORBES: Magazine Article - Carpetbaggers were the scourge of the South after the war, Northerners invading again to redraw political districts, invent land deeds and recreate Antebellum society during Reconstruction.
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