carpetbagger

英式音标：[ˈkɑ:pɪtbægə(r)]

美式音标：[ˈkɑrpɪtbægə(r)]

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概况：

n. 美国南北战争后利用南方不稳定的局势投机谋利的人

词义：

n.

美国内战后利用南方不定局势谋利的人；

变形

复数：carpetbaggers

英英释义

carpetbagger[ 'kɑ:pit,bæɡə ]

n.an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously

"after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"

用法：

权威例句

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Carpetbagger's crusade : the life of Albion Winegar Tourgée

Samuel Stanford Ashley, Carpetbagger and Educator

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Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction (review)

Creating "The Propaganda of History": Southern Editors and the Origins of "Carpetbagger and Scalawag"

同根词：carpetbag

英语词源：

carpetbagger (n.)

also carpet-bagger, 1868, American English, scornful appellation for Northerners who went South after the fall of the CSA seeking private gain or political advancement. The name is based on the image of men arriving with all their worldly goods in a big carpetbag. Sense later extended to any opportunist from out of the area.