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carpetbagger

英 ['kɑːpɪtbæɡə(r)] 美['kɑrpɪtbæɡɚ]
  • n. 美国南北战争后利用南方不稳定的局势投机谋利的人

英英释意


1. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;
"after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"