Beggarly
['begəlɪ] or ['bɛɡɚli]
解释:
(adj.) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt .
(adj.) marked by poverty befitting a beggar; 'a beggarly existence in the slums'; 'a mean hut' .
整理:马库斯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
(a.) Produced or occasioned by beggary.
(adv.) In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.
手打:纳塔利
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Destitute, indigent, needy, poor.[2]. Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, base-minded, low-minded, mean-spirited.
整理:米切尔
例句:
- Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- We can only offer you a beggarly five hundred to start with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps the two most beggarly countries in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- An abbot and a dozen beggarly friars is all we have. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Poland, where the feudal system still continues to take place, is at this day as beggarly a country as it was before the discovery of America. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I am a plain British merchant I am, and could buy the beggarly hounds over and over. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In every country where they take place, the tenants are poor and beggarly, pretty much according to the degree in which they take place. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I cannot tell; Aunt Reed says if I have any, they must be a beggarly set: I should not like to go a begging. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
整理:米切尔