city slicker

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After getting an incomprehensible set of directions, the city slicker says to the farmer, "You're not very smart, are you?"
由于認(rèn)不清方向，城里人對農(nóng)夫說，“你不是很聰明，是嗎？”
EXAMPLE: Dressed in my fancy new clothing I feel uncomfortable when I visit my relatives in the village where I was born because I feel like a city slicker.
穿著漂亮的新衣裳去拜訪我出生地所在的農(nóng)村的親戚，讓我感覺不適，因為我覺得自己像一個講穿戴、油嘴滑舌的城里人。
Her city slicker boyfriend looked pretty clumsy out here on the farm.
她那個衣著講究世故老練的城市男友到了農(nóng)莊這里看起來挺笨拙的。

Note he did not stride into a conference of unionists and act like a London City slicker by treating them with contempt.
FORBES: Money, Economy, Statistics
For the moment, ranchers and city-slicker computer wizards both find themselves under the Republican label, united by a common disdain for taxes and regulation.
ECONOMIST: A new Republican heartland

a person who lives in a city, and has no experience of or knowledge about living in the countryside

If you refer to someone as a city slicker, you mean that they live and work in a city and are stylish and sophisticated.