codfish aristocracy暴发户

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

The term coafish aristocracy，for a pretentious，newly rich person，apparently originated in the Boston area．It’s hard to think of any group haughtier than the Lowells and the Cabots (who spoke only to God in the land of the bean and the cod)，but the Boston nouveau riche who made their money from the codfishing industry in the late eighteenth century apparently gave a grandiose imitation of those haughty Yankees in Back Bay Boston．

该词语显然起源于波士顿地区，指狂妄的新富裕起来的人。很难想象有任何人会比波士顿地区的洛威尔家族和卡伯特家族的人更为傲慢；洛威尔家族靠种植豆类发家，卡伯特家族靠捕获鳕鱼发家。他们这两个家族的人往往目中无人。但是，18世纪末那些靠鳕鱼业赚钱的波士顿暴发户显然装模作样地模仿了那些傲慢的住在波士顿富人区后湾的美国人。