mendicancy

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网络  行乞; 乞讨; 托钵

英英释义

noun

• a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  Synonym:beggarybegging
• the state of being a beggar or mendicant
  1. they were reduced to mendicancy
  Synonym:beggarymendicity

双语例句

• Militant mendicancy over the nuclear issue demanding to be paid for every tiny step towards a distant disarmament, then backsliding and trying the same trick again will no longer wash.
  平壤在核问题上进行的“强行乞讨”先要求国际社会为该国向遥远的去核迈出的每一小步提供经援，然后退回到原有立场并故伎重施不会再有效果。
• It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
  尽管难以用笔墨形容，可它真真够得上乞丐帮这个词儿。