Beggar

(noun.) a pauper who lives by begging.

(verb.) reduce to beggary.

(verb.) be beyond the resources of; 'This beggars description!'.

编辑:曼纽尔

• Before the invention of the art of printing, a scholar and a beggar seem to have been terms very nearly synonymous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His own father therefore, disowns him for ever and ever, as a unnat'ral young beggar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Nothing but beggar my neighbor, miss. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• There shall be no beggar-marriages in my family. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d--d sentimentality. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I must say, I like to serve a decayed gentleman better than a blarnerying beggar. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Ah, a beggar has to have exceedingly good points to make a living in Constantinople. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars, said Front-de-Boeuf, have we a real monk this time, or another impostor? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There are the beggars of punctual business-habits too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Out-and-out beggars get taken care of, but poor gentle folks fare badly, because they won't ask, and people don't dare to offer charity. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• There are some beggars that you put on horseback, and they're the first to ride you down. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But there are, besides, the individual beggars; and how does the heart of the Secretary fail him when he has to cope with THEM! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A howling swarm of beggars followed us--surrounded us --almost headed us off. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I played the game to an end with Estella, and she beggared me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The few of his followers who have returned have straggled hither like this Wilfred of Ivanhoe, beggared and broken men. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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