There's a feeling of a snobbishness, an elitism that is very off-putting.

有一种傲慢和精英主义的感觉，非反感。

Never once in forty years of intimacy did his son notice in him a trace of snobbishness.

在四十年的亲密关系中， 他的儿从未在他身上注意到一丝势利。

The disappointment was not occasioned by the sentiment ordinarily defined as snobbishness, but by old New York's sense of what was due to it when it risked its dignity in foreign lands.

失望的不被定义为势利的情绪，而旧纽约对在异国他乡冒着尊严的危险的感觉。

I often asked myself what was the cause of the snobbishness that obsessed this man who was so intelligent, so kindly, and so cultivated.

我问自己，什么原因让这个如此聪明、如此善良、如此有教养的男如此势利。