riffraff

常見例句

I am convinced that you [should] continue to hold this riffraff in contempt...
我堅(jiān)信你應(yīng)該繼續(xù)鄙視這群流氓……
He would entertain there the factor of Taiohae, captains of wandering traders, and all the best of the South Pacific riffraff.
他要在那兒宴請?zhí)┬篮诘纳虅?wù)代辦、往來的商船船長和南太平洋流浪漢中的頭面人物。
When Bodleian funded the Bodleian library at Oxford, he wouldn't allow stage plays to be there because they were riffraff, they were trash.
博德利在牛津大學(xué)建圖書館的時(shí)候，不允許舞臺(tái)劇本上架，因?yàn)檫@都是很下賤的，是垃圾。

The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!
這些烏合之眾是貪食者;,然后猶太人邊哭邊說，“要是有肉吃就好了！
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Here, they were protected from the riffraff, the neighborhood, even from Mother Nature, in the form of floods or biting insects.
NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle
In town there was a professional summer theatre, a new thing at the time, which some people were enthusiastic about and others worried about, fearing that it would bring in riffraff.
NEWYORKER: Gravel
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
NEWYORKER: Cell One