I mean, did you say he was a pushy operative, or that he was an arriviste who was trying to get in with the Tory party?

我是说，你是指他是个咄咄逼的活动家，还是说他是个新贵， 试图与保守党拉关系？

By the 1970s and 1980s writers were looking down their noses at social climbers, in plays like Top Girls and Abigail's Party, in which a middle-class arriviste serves cheesy nibbles and the wrong kind of wine.

20世纪七八十年代，作家们着眼于眼前的向上爬的社会群体，剧《巅峰女孩》，《阿比盖尔的政党》中产阶级暴发户就像低劣的老鼠，宜的红酒。

Then Violet McKisco, whose prettiness had been piped to the surface of her, so that she ceased her struggle to make tangible to herself her shadowy position as the wife of an arriviste who had not arrived.

然后是维奥莱特·麦基斯科，她的美貌已经被吹到她的表面，所以她停止了努力让自己有形地看到她作为一个尚未到来的暴发户的妻子的阴影地位。