pelf
英 [pelf]
美
- n. 钱财；不义之财，赃物
英文词源
- pelf (n.)
- mid-14c., "stolen goods," from Anglo-French pelf, Old French pelfre "booty, spoils" (11c.), of unknown origin; also see pilfer. Meaning "money, riches," with a pejorative overtone first recorded c. 1500.
双语例句
- 1. Let him disenslave himself from the pelf of the world.
- 让他从金钱束缚下解放自己.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. Other households had found her too talkative and too opinionated, forever giving pelf mysterious airs.
- 在别处,有人嫌她太张道, 主意多,时常有些神眉鬼道儿的.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- 3. This escapist pelf has very little to say about the real world, much less American society.
- 这些虚幻的大制作及少触及真实世界, 更别提美国社会了.
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