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beggar

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beg·gar1 /ˈbeɡə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countableC]
1  SSPOORsomeone who lives by asking people for food and money 乞丐，叫花子
the beggars on the streets
街頭乞丐
2  lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggar British EnglishBrE spoken used when speaking to or about someone you like 幸運/懶惰/無禮等的家夥〔用於稱呼或談及喜歡的人〕
‘How’s Dave?’ ‘The lucky beggar’s in the South of France!’
“戴夫好嗎？”“這個幸運的家夥正在法國南部呢！”
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lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggar• I've been stood out there ages! - Anyway, why aren't you dressed yet, you lazy beggar?
3. beggars can’t be choosers ACCEPTused to say that, when you have no money or no power to choose, you have to accept whatever you are given 要飯的哪能挑肥揀瘦，要飯就不能嫌馊
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beggars can’t be choosers• It would be nice to have a suit with a better fit, but as they say, beggars can't be choosers.
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beggar• Without clothes, under his first blanket, he could have been the child of a king or a beggar.• A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank, narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived.• You can give beggars vouchers for food instead of cash.• Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars.• When Eumaeus came back he found the old beggar he had left.• I imagined the beggar from the London streets sitting with the old woman Khadija in my village.• The young beggar took the money wetted his finger and carefully counted the bills-twice.
beggar2 verb [transitiveT]
1  beggar description/belief IMPOSSIBLEif something beggars description or belief, it is impossible to describe or believe it 無法形容/相信
They showed a lack of common sense that beggars belief.
他們連常識都不懂，讓人沒法相信。
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beggar description/belief• Harry, that awful, awful singing beggars belief.• In Gravity's Rainbow, conspiracies proliferate to such an extent that they beggar description.• The initial radio message had beggared belief.• The thought of la belle dame de Bruges coming out with such stuff beggars belief.• The waste, deaths, brutality and destruction of property beggar description.• What she found there still beggars belief.
2  POOR literary to make someone very poor 使變窮，使貧窮
Why should he beggar himself for you?
他爲什麽要爲你受窮呢？
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beggar• The thought of la belle dame de Bruges coming out with such stuff beggars belief.• In Gravity's Rainbow, conspiracies proliferate to such an extent that they beggar description.• The vast panorama of teeming Life and Creation opened up to us through the teachings of Esotericism beggars human thought.• Floods combined with falling prices to beggar whole communities of farmers.
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