Mountebank
['maʊntɪbæŋk]
解释:
(noun.) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.
手打:维罗妮卡--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
(n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
(v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
(v. i.) To play the mountebank.
整理:朱莉安娜
同义词及近义词:
n. Pretender, charlatan, empiric, quack, quack doctor.
卡洛斯录入
解释:
n. a quack-doctor who boasts of his skill and his medicines: a boastful pretender.—adj. pertaining to such sham.—v.t. to cheat by false pretences to humbug.—v.i. to play the mountebank.—ns. Moun′tebankery Moun′tebanking Moun′tebankism.
校对:伍德罗
例句:
- Peace, good mountebank, I did but utter the truth that was in my heart. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In about another week, I wrote to him again as follows: Why don't you come, Mountebank? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He was looking at a mountebank! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Send hither the mountebanks. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Word was brought to Count Leonardo that a company of mountebanks besought his hospitality. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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