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mountebank

英 [ˈmaʊntɪbæŋk]

美 [ˈmaʊntɪbæŋk]

n.  江湖骗子

复数:mountebanks 

GRE

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

      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。