carpetbagger

常見例句

After the Civil war the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south.
美國(guó)內(nèi)戰(zhàn)以後，北方的外來(lái)者試圖控制南方。
I'm going to make friends with the Yankee carpetbaggers now and I'll beat them at their own game, and you'll beat them with me.
我會(huì)和那些北佬投機(jī)家們交朋友的，我會(huì)運(yùn)用他們自己制定的遊戯槼則來(lái)?yè)魯∷麄?，你要和我一起?lái)?yè)魯∷麄儭?/li>
"But they come through here like carpetbaggers, " he added. " They just kind of show up on the scene, do a game, disappear, and then come back two years later.
“但是他們?cè)谶@兒的所作所爲(wèi)更像一個(gè)投機(jī)者，”他說(shuō)“他們僅僅關(guān)心表麪文章，玩一場(chǎng)遊戯，消失，然後兩年後廻來(lái)。
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Many of the new governors and state officials were carpetbaggers from outside the state.
Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers.
They had a special name for them: carpetbaggers.

It also played bad cop, in part by painting protesters as carpetbaggers.
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Carpetbaggers were the scourge of the South after the war, Northerners invading again to redraw political districts, invent land deeds and recreate Antebellum society during Reconstruction.
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