Mercenary

(noun.) a person hired to fight for another country than their own.

(adj.) serving for wages in a foreign army; 'mercenary killers' .

编辑:西娅

• The gold-headed cane is farcical considered as an acknowledgment to me; but happily I am above mercenary considerations. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Perhaps if it was, your little mercenary wretch of a daughter wouldn't make so free with it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mercenary creatures ask, 'What is the use of a man's going to the North Pole? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army, in the midst of peace, and among a free people. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It is an advantage to get about in such a case without taking a mercenary into your confidence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I should be sorry to think our friend mercenary. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Of which,' pursued the cherub, enjoining patience with his hand, 'a certain mercenary young person distantly related to myself, could not approve? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The mercenary young person distantly related to myself, did not trust to me in vain! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So insolent, so trivial, so capricious, so mercenary, so careless, so hard to touch, so hard to turn! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am the most mercenary little wretch that ever lived in the world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There is nothing mercenary in that with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Well then, on that mercenary ground, will you agree to let me hector a little? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He is one of the most mercenary, selfish creatures I ever met with. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I may be mercenary, but I hate poverty, and don't mean to bear it a minute longer than I can help. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I AM so mercenary! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In a well-ordered State there are only a few such, and these in time of war go out and become the mercenaries of a tyrant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a battle in the delta, in which Greek mercenaries fought on both sides. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His citizens have no silver or gold of their own, but are ready enough to pay them to their mercenaries. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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