1SSPOORsomeone who lives by asking people for food and money 乞丐,叫花子
the beggars on the streets
街头乞丐
2lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggarBritish EnglishBrE spoken used when speaking to or about someone you like 幸运/懒惰/无礼等的家伙〔用于称呼或谈及喜欢的人〕
‘How’s Dave?’ ‘The lucky beggar’s in the South of France!’
“戴夫好吗?”“这个幸运的家伙正在法国南部呢!”
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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 choosersACCEPTused to say that, when you have no money or no power to choose, you have to accept whatever you are given 要饭的哪能挑肥拣瘦,要饭就不能嫌馊
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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 beggarlad showed us the house in a dank, narrowalleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived.• You can give beggarsvouchers 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]
1beggar description/beliefIMPOSSIBLEif something beggarsdescription or belief, it is impossible to describe or believe it 无法形容/相信
They showed a lack of common sense that beggars belief.
他们连常识都不懂,让人没法相信。
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beggar description/belief• Harry, that awful, awful singingbeggars belief.• In Gravity's Rainbow, conspiraciesproliferate to such an extent that they beggar description.• The initial radio message had beggared belief.• The thought of labelledame de Bruges coming out with such stuffbeggars belief.• The waste, deaths, brutality and destruction of property beggar description.• What she found there still beggars belief.