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

有种傲慢和精英主义感觉，非常令人反感。

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

在四十密关系中， 他儿从未在他身上注丝势利。

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.

令人失望不是通常被定义为势利情绪，而是旧纽约对在异国他乡冒着尊严危险感觉。

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

我常常问自己，是什么原因让这个如此聪明、如此善良、如此有教养男人如此势利。