riff-raff
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈrɪf.ræf]
- 美式音标 [ˈrɪf.ræf]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.底层生活;指群体不值得尊敬的
英汉例句
- Western Europe may have cheered the revolution, but it fears a flood of riff-raff from the east.
西欧可能会对革命欢欣鼓舞,但也担心来自东部的贫民潮。 - Littered on the grass, we seemed dingy, urban riff-raff. We defiled the scene, like sardine-tins and paper bags on the seashore.
我们呢,却好像是一堆肮脏的城市垃圾,被胡乱丢在草地上,如同海滩上的纸袋和沙丁鱼罐头盒一样败坏风景。 - Police harassment is minimal, “at least to start with”. Riff-raff and drunks from surrounding villages are kept away by tight security.
人们很少受到警察骚扰(至少刚开始是这样),严格的安保赶走了附近村子的社会闲散人员和醉汉。 - He was like the rest of us riff-raff, middle class kids from unglamorous hard working families who believed in the future.
FORBES: Getting Over Our Over-Levered Selves - The new tax may send a definite message to wealthy citizens to redistribute their wealth to the rest of the Russian riff-raff.
FORBES: Rich Russians Also Lament New Tax Hikes - Mr Evans blames the city's strict regulation of street concerts—which cynics say serves more to protect club owners from competition than to keep the riff-raff away.
ECONOMIST: Letter from the Mississippi Delta: The rebirth of the blues
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- people with a bad reputation or of a low social class
- If you refer to a group of people as riffraff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable.
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专业释义
- 暴民