uppity
音标：
英音/ ˈʌpəti / 美音/ ˈʌpəti /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Thomas accused Biden’s committee of conducting “a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.”
托马斯指责拜登的委员会“对傲慢的黑人进行高科技私刑，他们以任何方式屈尊为自己思考，为自己做事，有不同的想法。”
—Reuters
In his climactic testimony, Thomas said, in part, “from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned it’s a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks”.
托马斯在他的高潮证词中部分地表示，“从我作为一名美国黑人的角度来看，就我而言，这是对傲慢的黑人的高科技私刑”。
—The Guardian
“People who owned the iron works – Americans – quite clearly didn’t want to put up with ‘uppity’ workers. Welsh workers were more independent and went on strike.”
“拥有钢铁厂的人——美国人——显然不想忍受‘傲慢’的工人。威尔士工人更加独立，并进行了罢工。”
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
presumptuously arrogant
傲慢的；自负的；不易控制的
同义词：
overweening
短释义：
Someone who’s a snob or who acts like a pompous know-it-all deserves to be described as uppity. It’s an informal way to talk about a snooty or arrogant person, and it first appeared in African American English in the nineteenth century. The initial published use of uppity was in “Uncle Remus,” a collection of African American folk stories adapted by a white journalist in 1881.
如果你专横、自大，人们可能会说你傲慢。如果你穿着最旧的运动鞋和工作服去吃饭，一家高档餐厅里傲慢的服务员可能会显得很厌恶。
长释义：
Someone who’s a snob or who acts like a pompous know-it-all deserves to be described as uppity. It’s an informal way to talk about a snooty or arrogant person, and it first appeared in African American English in the nineteenth century. The initial published use of uppity was in “Uncle Remus,” a collection of African American folk stories adapted by a white journalist in 1881.
一个势利小人或表现得像一个自负的万事通的人应该被描述为傲慢。这是一种非正式的方式来谈论傲慢或傲慢的人，它首次出现在十九世纪的非裔美国英语中。首次出版的傲慢用法是在《雷穆斯叔叔》中，这是一本非裔美国民间故事集，由一位白人记者于 1881 年改编。
文学例句：
Any uppity young one can ask a question.
任何一个傲慢的年轻人都可以提出问题。
—Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Hutchison, Paula
Lander’s rhetoric inflamed passions; he fomented rebellion; he was too uppity to allow to run free.
兰德的言论激起了人们的激情；他煽动叛乱；他太傲慢了，不允许他逍遥法外。
—The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
All these people, so uppity and polite, can’t manage to get that little word out, or at least can’t make me believe they really mean it.
所有这些人，如此傲慢和有礼貌，都无法说出那句话，或者至少无法让我相信他们是认真的。
—X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
词源：
uppity (adj.)1880, American English, from up + -ity; originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive (first recorded use is in “Uncle Remus”).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
uppity (adj.)1880，美式英语，来自 up + -ity；最初由其他黑人的黑人使用，感觉过于自信（首次使用记录是在“Uncle Remus”中）。相关条目及更多
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