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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 car·pet·bag·ger /-ˌbægɚ/
 以手提包旅行者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Car·pet·bag·ger n. An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 carpetbagger
      n : an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;
          "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north
          tried to take over the south"