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3月8日商务英语

2010-03-08

ragamuffin;to keep someone or something at bay

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    今日单词:

单词 中文释义 英文释义 例句
ragamuffin (衣衫褴褛的)流浪儿(名词,非正式用语) (noun, INFORMAL) A disheveled, shaggily dressed child. EXAMPLE: When he arrived to stay in our city house, my cousin's son was a shy ragamuffin from the farm who needed new clothes, a bath and a haircut.
我堂兄的儿子刚来到我们城市的住宅居住时,是一个衣衫褴褛的农村流浪儿,需要理发、洗澡、换新衣服。

    今日短语:

短语 中文释义 英文释义 例句
to keep someone or something at bay 抑制,阻止

To keep someone or something from doing harm by preventing movement.

EXAMPLE: The group of angry women were able to keep the thief at bay by blocking the building's only door until the police arrived to arrest him.
这群愤怒的妇女堵住了这座楼唯一的门,阻止小偷出逃,直到警察到来,将其逮捕。
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