mountebank
英 [ˈmaʊntɪbæŋk]
美 [ˈmaʊntɪbæŋk]
n. 江湖骗子
复数:mountebanks
BNC.48364 / COCA.40437
牛津词典
noun
- 江湖骗子
a person who tries to trick people, especially in order to get their money
英英释义
noun
- a flamboyant deceiver
双语例句
- He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him.
他立刻跑到监狱去,下到那“耍把戏的人”的牢房里,他叫他的名字,搀着他的手,和他谈话。 - For letting this mountebank slip through my blockade.
以引诱那个混蛋进入我的领地。 - The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.
那两个孩子,也许是被什么警察收留关进拘留所了,或是被什么江湖艺人拐走了,或者压根儿就是迷失在这个无边无际的巴黎迷宫里了,他们没有回来。 - I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!
我本来担心这女人除去拿她的孩子装幌子再也没有更好的想法呢! - This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence.
这种德国的社会主义,将学术性看得如此严肃和神圣,并且以这种江湖郎中的风格颂扬它的差劲的手段,同时渐渐失去了它的学究式的天真。