By the 1970s and 1980s writers were looking down their noses at social climbers, in plays like Top Girls and Abigail's Party, in which a middle-class arriviste serves cheesy nibbles and the wrong kind of wine.

20世纪七八十年代，作家们着眼于眼前向上爬社会群体，戏剧《巅峰女孩》，《阿比盖尔政党》中产阶级就像低劣老鼠，不合红酒。

Then Violet McKisco, whose prettiness had been piped to the surface of her, so that she ceased her struggle to make tangible to herself her shadowy position as the wife of an arriviste who had not arrived.

然后是维奥莱特·麦基斯科，她美貌已经被吹到她表面，所以她停止了努力让自己有形地看到她作为一个尚未到来妻子阴影地位。