beggar
n. 乞丐
v. 使贫穷
A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
If something beggars a person, country, or organization, it makes them very poor.
He warned that lifting copyright restrictions could beggar the industry.
他警告说解除版权限制会使这个行业一贫如洗。
If something beggars belief, it is impossible to believe it. If something beggars description, it is impossible to describe it.
The statistics beggar belief...
统计数据让人难以置信。
His courage beggars description.
他的胆量无法用语言来形容。
1. a pauper who lives by begging
1. be beyond the resources of;
2. reduce to beggary
beggar belief (或 description)
(因十分异乎寻常而令人)难以置信(或难以形容)
beggars can't be choosers
(谚)要饭的哪能挑肥拣瘦;没有选择权就只好满足于能得到的东西
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the De
(谚)长期掌权者必滥用权力;习惯于奢靡生活者必腐化
Once a beggar, always a beggar.
一次做乞丐, 永远是乞丐.
Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
叫化子发财必然忘乎所以.
After the beggar finished his food. He left for home – a hut of wood.
那乞丐吃饱后. 他回去他的家–一间木屋.
The war reduced Angola to a beggar nation, dependent on handouts from the World Food Program.
内战直接让安哥拉变成了要饭国家, 依靠联合国粮食计划苟延残喘.
The beggar is looking at him with a sadder face.
这乞讨者向他露出一脸悲伤.