mountebank
- n.江湖骗子
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The nation was led astray by a mountebank .
这个国家被一个夸夸其谈的骗子引入歧途。
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The mountebank was stormed with questions .
江湖骗子受到了猛烈的质问。
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I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child !
我本来担心这女人除去拿她的孩子装幌子再也没有更好的想法呢!
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For letting this mountebank slip through my blockade .
以引诱那个混蛋进入我的领地。
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He went instantly to the prison , descended to the cell of the " mountebank ," called him by name , took him by the hand , and spoke to him .
他立刻跑到监狱去,下到那“耍把戏的人”的牢房里,他叫他的名字,搀着他的手,和他谈话。
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This German Socialism , which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly , and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion , meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence .
这种德国的社会主义,将学术性看得如此严肃和神圣,并且以这种江湖郎中的风格颂扬它的差劲的手段,同时渐渐失去了它的学究式的天真。
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The two children , picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge , or stolen by some mountebank , or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris , did not return .
那两个孩子,也许是被什么警察收留关进拘留所了,或是被什么江湖艺人拐走了,或者压根儿就是迷失在这个无边无际的巴黎迷宫里了,他们没有回来。