mountebank
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈmaʊntɪbæŋk]
- 美式音标 [ˈmaʊntəˌbæŋk]
- 国际音标 ['mauntibæŋk]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 江湖郎中,骗子
- vi. 行骗;走江湖卖假药
英汉例句
- I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!
我本来担心这女人除去拿她的孩子装幌子再也没有更好的想法呢! - I remember. there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which(as he told the country people)were very good against an earthquake(Joseph Addison.
我记得…有一个厚颜无耻的商人来推销能(据他对村民们所说的)对付地震极为有效的药片(约瑟夫·艾迪生)。 - The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.
那两个孩子,也许是被什么警察收留关进拘留所了,或是被什么江湖艺人拐走了,或者压根儿就是迷失在这个无边无际的巴黎迷宫里了,他们没有回来。
双语例句
词组短语
- mountebank k 江湖郎中;骗子
- a mountebank 庸医
- mountebank tumbler 变戏法者
- impostor mountebank 冒名顶替的骗子
- Matt Mountebank 蒙特宾克
短语
英英字典
- someone who pretends to be someone or something that they are not, or to be able to do something that they cannot
- (formerly) a person who sold quack medicines in public places
- to play the mountebank