beggar
美 [ˈbeɡər]
英 [ˈbeɡə(r)] 
- n.乞丐;叫花子;(与形容词连用)家伙
- v.使贫穷;使匮乏
- 网络穷人;募捐者;乞儿
词形变化
复数:beggars 现在分词:beggaring 过去式:beggared 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 乞丐;叫花子a person who lives by asking people for money or food |
2. |
(与形容词连用)家伙used with an adjective to describe sb in a particular way |
| Aren't you dressed yet, you lazy beggar? 你这个懒虫还没穿好衣服吗? |
1. | ~ sb/sth/yourself 使贫穷;使匮乏to make sb/sth very poor |
| Why should I beggar myself for you? 我为什么要为你受穷? |
习惯用语
beggars cant be choosers
要饭就不能嫌馊;给什么就得要什么people saybeggars can't be choosers when there is no choice and sb must be satisfied with what is available
beggar belief/description
难以相信;无法形容to be too extreme, shocking, etc. to believe/describe
| It beggars belief how things could have got this bad. 真是难以置信,情况怎么会恶化到这种地步。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Every stroke of the quill leaves me a little poorer . . . or would, if I were not a beggar to begin with.
每用羽毛笔写下一次,我就变的越来越穷……或者将会,若我不在一开始就是个穷光蛋的话。
Now many years have passed but the image of myself with a beggar's pole trying to fend off a bunch of barking dogs still haunts me.
现在许多年过去了,但是一个情景却一直萦绕脑海,我拿着一个乞丐的棍子努力的赶走一群狂叫的狗。
In a game of beggar-thy-neighbor, they're trying to keep inflation at home from soaring out of control.
他们运用以邻为壑的对策,设法使国内高涨的通货膨胀率处于控制之中。
You think Simon is a fool because he gave money to a beggar? You can talk, you've done some pretty foolish things yourself!
你认为西蒙向一乞丐施舍钱财就是个傻瓜了吗?你没有资格批评,你自己也曾做过一些很蠢的事情!
Getting there takes a bit of maneuvering. You are greeted at the Metro station exit by a Gypsy beggar or two and a sign for McDonald's.
往那儿去,你得多留些神。刚出地铁口时,你会看到一两个吉普赛乞丐和一个麦当劳标志牌。
Everybody in the crowd pushed forward to see their King. A beggar also came forward with his bowl. There was lots of rice in it.
人群一拥而上,希望一睹他们国王的样子。一个手持破碗的乞丐也涌了上来,碗里头还有不少米
a little beggar-girl, begged for a small piece of barley-corn, for she had been without a morsel to eat for two days.
她请求施舍一颗大麦粒给她,她已经两天没有吃过一丁点儿东西。
A beggar who was seen through the light of electric torch was sleeping in front of him door.
手电筒的光照出一个乞丐睡在他家门口。
If he saw a beggar in the street he did not arrest him for begging. Instead, he gave him a few coins to buy a meal.
如果他在街上看到一个乞讨者,他不会把他抓起来,相反,他会给他一些零钱买一顿饭。
So he never responds when a blind or crippled beggar or a mother cradling her baby holds out a hand for money.
所以,当盲人、残疾乞丐或抱着婴儿的母亲伸手向他要钱时,他从来不给。
That old beggar-- he told me a fine tale about the Duke and his magical dagger.
那个老乞丐他告诉我了一个关于公爵和他的魔法匕首的故事
I had come to his door no better than a beggar and little more than a child, he had met me with treachery and violence.
我找到他们的时候,比一个叫花子强不了多少,还只是一个大孩子罢了,他却用阴谋诡计和暴力对付我。
Yesterday a beggar knocked at my door. He asked me for a meal and a glass of beer.
咋天一个乞丐来敲我的门,问我要一顿饭和一杯啤酒。
When I told him about an encounter with a pushy beggar, he said: "You should have sliced his hand off with my knife. "
当我告诉他,我遇到一位穷追猛打的乞丐时,他说道:“你应该用我的刀把他手砍下来。”
When he awoke, but finds himself in a line of five mainland named world, into a small move called her a beggar.
当他一觉醒来时,却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界,变成了一个叫做姬动的小乞丐。
He began to be known in the neighborhood under the name of the beggar who gives alms.
附近一带的人开始称他为“给钱的化子”。
He is a great friend of mine, buys all my pictures and that sort of thing, and gave me a commission a month ago to paint him as a beggar.
他是我的好朋友,买我所有的作品等等,而且在一个月之前他给了我一笔佣金,叫我把他画成个乞丐。
Investigators say members of a criminal gang were trying to force the boy to become a beggar on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital.
调查人员称犯罪组织的成员想要强迫这个孩子在孟加拉国的首都,达卡的街道上行乞。
Imagine the ragged little blind beggar carefully sensing his way to his place by the city gate.
这个破衣烂衫的讨饭瞎子小心翼翼地来到耶利哥城门口。
The elderly woman opened it, but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar, because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies.
年长的妇人开了门,但她一定以为我是一个小偷或乞丐,因为她不让我和两位年轻姑娘讲话。
I will say so much for you, though you have had the incivility to call me a beggar.
我要为你说这些话,尽管你毫不礼貌地把我叫做要饭的。
Then he said I was mean, and then he said I was base; then I called him a beggar.
他还说我卑鄙,说我龌龊,跟着我也就叫起他叫化子来了。
The supposed beggar was really a police officer in disguise.
那个被信以为乞丐的人,原来是乔装的警官。
The beggar cursed loudly.
乞丐大声咒骂。
I see none here but this vile beggar-woman.
这儿就只有这个下残的讨饭女人。
At that moment a strange beggar entered the courtyard.
就在这个时候,一个陌生的乞丐进了院子。
The driver, 21-year-old Tian Houbo, said he thought no one would notice the death of a beggar.
该司机名为田厚波,21岁,他承认以为没人会注意到一个乞丐的死。
It is said that long long ago there was a beggar who begged all the way along the road until he came to a village in Changshu County.
相传,很久以前,有一个叫化子,沿途讨饭流落到常熟县的一个村庄。
I decided that the best way of collecting facts for my articles was that I would become a beggar myself for just one day.
我认为为我的文章收集素材的最好办法就是亲身做一天乞丐。
But this time he was no longer a beggar-man black with leprosy and with feet and hands that had rotted away.
但是,这一次他不再是一个乞丐,麻风病和男子的脚和手离开了腐烂的黑色。
One day, when he was travelling the country disguised as a beggar, he stopped at the cottage of a poor ploughman to ask for food.
一天,他化装成乞丐,来到一个穷农夫的茅舍前讨点吃的。
I am not a beggar. With you always giving so much to me, I am starting to feel that I owe you too much.
我不是乞丐,您一直给我,我会觉得欠您太多。
In return for this, the beggar stood on his head and sang songs. I gave him a meal.
这个乞丐倒立着唱了几支歌作为报答。我给了他一餐饭。
"Land Buddha that the beggar is justified, he said: " Well, you will become a water snake, three days in March every year to see the world.
土地菩萨觉得叫花子言之有理,便说:“好吧,你就变一条水蛇,每年三月初三去看世界。”
As I hesitated on the curb, I felt a hand on my elbow and looked down to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me.
当我在街头犹豫的时候,我感到在我胳膊肘处有一只手。我向下看了看,看到那个身材矮小的乞丐朋友微笑地望着我。
The beggar stared at me with his bloodshot eyes; his blue lips smiled; and he in his turn gripped my chilly fingers.
乞丐那对红肿的眼睛凝视着我;他发青的嘴唇微笑了一下--接着,他也照样紧握了我的变得冷起来的手指。
It would not reflect well on the Monarchy if I allow one of their favorite performers to become a homeless beggar.
如果我让他们最喜欢的表演者成了无家可归的乞丐,这对我的统治可没好处。
There he would sit all day, holding out his beggar's cup to any who passed in and out of the city.
在那里他要坐上一整天,举著他的讨饭碗向过路的人乞讨。
"You are mad to say so, " cried the Star-Child angrily. "I am not your son, for you are a beggar, and ugly, and in rags. Get out! "
星子生气地大叫道:『你疯了才会这幺说。我不是你的儿子,因为你是个衣衫褴褛的丑乞丐。出去!』
The beggar is looking at him with a sadder face.
这乞讨者向他露出一脸悲伤。
The elderly woman must have thought I was a beggar, because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies.
这位上了年纪的妇女肯定认为我是叫花子,因为她不让我跟那些年轻的小姐说话。
He asked me for a meal and a glass of beer. In return for this, the beggar stood on his head and sang songs.
他求我施舍一顿饭和一杯啤酒,作为回报,他倒立唱了支歌。
So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
后来那讨饭的死了,被天使带去放在亚伯拉罕的怀里。财主也死了,并且埋葬了。
A beggar came up to us and asked for money while we were waiting for the train.
我们候车的时候,一位乞丐走过来要钱。
"But not for the same reason, " she said. "I thought you were a beggar. " She looked at my worn sandals and added: "Not even any socks. "
“但是原因不一样,我以为你是个要饭的。”看了看我的凉鞋她又追了一句,“连袜子都没得穿。”
Did beggar-thy-neighbour exchange rate policies during the interwar period operate to open or to close markets?
两次世界大战期间“损人利己”的汇率政策所起到的作用,是开放市场还是关闭市场呢?