beggar 的 2 个定义
- to reduce to utter poverty; impoverish: The family had been beggared by the war.
- to cause one's resources of or ability for to seem poor or inadequate: The costume beggars description.
beggar 近义词
person asking for charity
person in financial trouble
更多beggar例句
- Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
- Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that.
- In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”
- The landays in I Am the Beggar of the World are sung only when men are absent.
- I am the Beggar of the World is a book of poems, war reportage, and photographs.
- He's a lucky beggar, Reginald, a very lucky beggar, and Warrender's daughter is more than he deserves.
- A beggar asking alms under the character of a poor scholar, a gentleman put the question, Quomodo vales?
- Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
- If God put a beggar on horseback, would the horse be blamable for galloping to Monte Carlo?
- And on the same authority we find that there is the ghost of dirt, for the ghost of the old beggar-man was "dirty."