In the remote corners of Appenzell or the vast forests of Missouri there was, blessedly, no concern for fashion and no one upmanship around hair extensions.
在遥远的亚本瑟或是密苏里丛林那儿很幸运地不关心时尚 也没人在比较发型装饰。
| 单词 | One upmanship |
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One upmanship
原声例句
历史 In the remote corners of Appenzell or the vast forests of Missouri there was, blessedly, no concern for fashion and no one upmanship around hair extensions. 在遥远的亚本瑟或是密苏里丛林那儿很幸运地不关心时尚 也没人在比较发型装饰。
英语百科
One-upmanship（重定向自One upmanship）
One-upmanship is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor. Exactly when the term originated is unknown; several examples are known from the early 1900s. It was used in the title of a book by Stephen Potter, published in 1952 as a follow-up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) (1947), which also contained the term, and Lifemanship titles in his series of tongue-in-cheek self-help books, and film and television derivatives, that teach various ploys to achieve this. This satire of self-help style guides manipulates traditional British conventions for the gamester, all life being a game, who understands that if you're not one-up, you're one-down. Potter's unprincipled principles apply to almost any possession, experience or situation, deriving maximum undeserved rewards and discomforting the opposition. The 1960 film School for Scoundrels and the 2006 film School For Scoundrels were satiric portrayals of how to use Potter's ideas. |
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