beggar

beggar['beɡə]

• n.
  • 乞丐，行乞者，叫花子
  • 贫民，穷人，穷光蛋
  • 募捐者
  • [口语]积极分子；能手(for)
  • [口语]人，家伙[戏谑语或带感情色彩用语]
• vt.
  • 使沦为乞丐；使贫穷：

    The family had been beggared by the war.

    战争使这家人沦为乞丐。

  • 使成无用；难以作…；使落空，使不足，使不能；胜过，超过，超越：

    His hat was so funny it beggars description.

    他的帽子如此逗人，用笔墨难以形容。

• 短语:
  • Beggars must (或 should) not(或 cannot) be choosers. [谚语]要饭的哪能挑肥拣瘦。(或：受惠于人，不能挑肥拣瘦。饥不择食。)
  • Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil. [谚语]乞丐一发财就得意忘形(或忘乎所以)。

• ogler
• Gene Clusters
• metamorphosing
• paduasoys
• the canvas
• white market
• equal roots
• bump off
• oil-field brine
• side-wheeler
• slither
• hermaphrodite caliper
• indemonstrableness
• hagfish
• lomboks
• humiliatingly
• ride for a fall
• spin a tale / story / yarn
• retaliationist
• tie someone (up) in knots
• return connecting rod
• putschists
• house and home
• police force
• compact disk player
• hal-
• hauberks
• primary pit field
• lealties
• calculations
• strepsiceross
• free-for-alls
• decor
• Electric Anesthesias
• romper rooms
• all comes to all
• agribusinesses
• onfest
• borax bead
• essentializing
• muscleless
• dewatering
• Advisory Committee of the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
• put stress upon
• hydroxyzines
• outside left
• continentalizing
• plastic
• lamentableness
• Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle
• prefoliation
• bathyal district
• plunge in also plunge into sth
• precedings
• subacids
• Oita
• ieee
• corn colour
• ontogenetic
• three-quarter time
• at a（或the）minimum
• bond markets
• knock into a cocked hat
• c／m
• trade surpluses
• I'll thank you for sth/to do sth
• the docks
• propagated blast
• cycle theory
• telephone repeater
• blithe bread
• Carbonaceous Chondrites
• bizzer
• fasc
• water-spotting
• promotive
• pebble coal
• ferricyanic acids
• AFRS
• command language interpreter
• tall-poppy syndrome
• twinberries
• logoplegia
• odd parity
• shortfalls
• catch the point of
• Bhopal
• saffians
• omn. hor
• deviousness
• dogmatizing
• lard oils
• doweling jig
• tuned-grid oscillator
• run through
• nitryl
• across-information flow
• Leo Minor
• Reformed Church
• outwardness