They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors.
他们非常势利,不喜欢智力和社会地位不如自己的人。
《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. -- Benjamin Franklin.
举止谦恭,这对上司是责任, 对同事是礼貌, 对下级则是一种高尚. -- 富兰克林.
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Never express anything unbecoming, nor act against the rules moral before your inferiors.
在身份比你低的人面前,决不要有任何不得体的言谈, 也不要有任何违背礼仪规则的举止.
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