Beggarly
['begəlɪ] or ['bɛɡɚli]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
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/造句/用法:
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- We can only offer you a beggarly five hundred to start with. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps the two most beggarly countries in Europe. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- An abbot and a dozen beggarly friars is all we have. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I am a plain British merchant I am, and could buy the beggarly hounds over and over. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. 沃爾特·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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
整理:米切尔