英:['rɪfræf]
美:[ˈrɪfˌræf]
英:['rɪfræf]
美:[ˈrɪfˌræf]
riff·raff
rIf raef
也 riff-raff,15世纪末,指“品行不端或地位低下的人”,源自更早的 rif and raf(盎格鲁-法语 rif et raf)“每个人,一切事物; 废料,无价值的东西”(14世纪中叶),源自古法语 rif et raf,源自 rifler “破坏,剥夺”(参见 rifle(动词))。第二个元素源自 raffler “带走”,与 rafle “掠夺”相关,或者源自 raffer “抢夺,扫荡”(参见 raffle(名词)); 这个词可能更多地是为了引起半押韵的联想而不是为了表达意义。
“社区的废料,渣滓或乌合之众”的意思可追溯到1540年代。在15世纪的关联术语集合中,一群年轻男子或男孩被称为 a raffle of knaves。
Middle English ryffe raffe, from rif and raf every single one, from Anglo-French rif e raf altogether
The first known use of riffraff was in the 15th century
rift1 of 2noun
an opening made by splitting or separation : cleft
a normal geological fault
a break in friendly relations : breach
rift2 of 2verb
cleave entry 2, split
riflingnoun
the act or process of making spiral grooves
a system of spiral grooves inside the barrel of a gun causing a bullet when fired to spin about its longer axis
rifle1 of 4verb
to search through fast and roughly especially in order to steal
rifled the coat pockets for loose change
steal entry 1 sense 2a
rifle2 of 4verb
to cut spiral grooves on the inside of a barrel of
rifled arms
rifle3 of 4noun
a weapon with a long rifled barrel that is designed to be fired from the shoulder
a rifled artillery piece
plural a body of soldiers armed with rifles
rifle4 of 4verb
to hit or throw a ball with great force
riflerynoun
the practice of shooting at targets with a rifle
riflemannoun
a soldier armed with a rifle
a person skilled in shooting with a rifle
rifle1 of 4verb
to search through fast and roughly especially in order to steal
rifled the coat pockets for loose change
steal entry 1 sense 2a
rifle2 of 4verb
to cut spiral grooves on the inside of a barrel of
rifled arms
rifle3 of 4noun
a weapon with a long rifled barrel that is designed to be fired from the shoulder
a rifled artillery piece
plural a body of soldiers armed with rifles
rifle4 of 4verb
to hit or throw a ball with great force
riffraffnoun
a class of people who are looked down upon : rabble
rubbish
1 There’s a gate topped with barbed wire to keep the riffraff out, and then long and winding stairs down to the sea.
2 When Bodleian funded the Bodleian library at Oxford, he wouldn't allow stage plays to be there because they were riffraff, they were trash.
博德利在牛津大学建图书馆的时候,不允许舞台剧本上架,因为这都是很下贱的,是垃圾。
3 Nor could he see why a country that had eliminated the original Americans was repopulating itself with riffraff.
4 She simply walked imperiously forward, not evincing the slightest curiosity at the riffraff around her – myself included.
5 They wanted to keep voting restricted to those who met property qualifications — their people, not the riffraff who would vote them out of power.
6 One of the many benefits of losing your hair, as her mother pointed out, is that it tends to “weed out the riffraff.”
7 These are prestige professions, and judging from the investment required, this is not a sport for the riffraff.
8 "You riffraff. Think you can enter a temple stinking like garbage!"
9 Rachel Stevens, 35, a producer at a radio station in Bozeman, Mont., has been fine without the “riffraff,” the extraneous half-friends.
10 William is ready for the task and has no intention of being killed by rebels or any other riffraff in the forests of Virginia.
11 The bar’s owner, Frankie (a spirited Jessica Williams), has hired Dalton to purge the riffraff, the better to realize her dream of making the Road House a respectable joint worthy of destination weddings and romantic getaways.
12 “They associated tattoos and all that stuff with riffraff,” Von D says.
13 It’s quite a turnaround for a city that was founded in 1788 as a dumping-ground for the riffraff of Georgian Britain.
14 Mamet won’t simply let you write off these losers as seedy riffraff.
15 “It drove the riffraff into the bars,” Johnson said.
16 And “shiksa,” as the kind of word that could be very attractive to the riffraff, was appended and begot “shakester” and “shickster,” terms that initially denoted a lower-class woman.
17 You hang around with riffraff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid and it'll rub off on you.
你如果跟像韦斯莱家或海格这样不三不四的人混在一起,你会受到影响的。
18 These people give me the creeps. Riffraff!
这些人使我起鸡皮疙瘩。真是一群痞子!
19 “Inspection, right. Very careful we must be. Can’t allow any riffraff or deserters,” I said.
20 That such riffraff as Sarkozy and Cameron, whose aims are transparently sordid, were applauded and worshipped—and you suddenly give them support.
萨科奇和卡梅伦这样的痞子流氓,其目的之可耻性完全是一眼就能看穿的,而正是他们被喝彩和崇拜--而您突然支持了他们。
1 破烂
crazy ragged dilapidated tattered ratty tatty bedraggled used-up mangy flyblown tattery mundungus stuff dust garbage junk tack rubble cultch
2 废物
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4 无价值
no-good no-account puckeroo stramineous light bad sorry refuse nowhere bare peanut crap idle invalid straw null punk worthless dusty crappy bum queer careless shitty vile unworthy jazzy frothy trashy slushy leaden valueless frippery good-for-nothing schlub nugatory fustian picayune rinky-dink twopenny thriftless footling rubbishy unvalued chaffy drossy footle bastardly indign pistareen cotton-picking vanity nothingness naught nothing up to putty no chop not worth a cracker blow on
5 碎屑
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6 垃圾
refuse trashy rubbishy rejectamenta mundungus stuff waste truck dust trash disposal debris sweeping raffle scum filth scraping gash offal disposer coom bollocks raff prut mullock spilth offscouring cultch trashery
9 社会低层的人
10 乌合之众
ragtag tumultuary varletry tagrag tag mob rout huddle rabble raff canaille doggery and bobtail
14 渣滓
recremental recrementitious dregs leavings scourings recrement ground residue remnant cull scum slag crud rump dross raff dreg grouts offscouring fecula fecal sediment feces tailing residuum lees settlings foot mother refuse tail trash residual grout froth settling rinsing draff offscourings feculence
15 无价值的
no-good no-account puckeroo stramineous light bad sorry refuse nowhere bare peanut crap idle invalid straw null punk worthless dusty crappy bum queer careless shitty vile unworthy jazzy frothy trashy slushy leaden valueless frippery good-for-nothing schlub nugatory fustian picayune rinky-dink twopenny thriftless footling rubbishy unvalued chaffy drossy footle bastardly indign pistareen cotton-picking naught not worth a cracker
17 流氓
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