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Definition of beggar in English: beggarnoun ˈbɛɡəˈbɛɡər 1A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food. （尤指无家可归的）乞丐，叫花子 Example sentencesExamples - We have to discourage begging and simultaneously find beggars another way of earning a living.
- They are so stressed they have become like homeless beggars.
- The streets were crowded with poor dirty beggars.
- It would give beggars a chance to have a decent living.
- Rather than return to jail after a weekend outside, Markov became a homeless man, cultivating the look of a madman in order to get more money as a beggar.
- On the way to his house Yuki was flagged down by many beggars and poor crippled souls.
- For those homeless and beggars in the streets, life was even more miserable.
- I live in London, where daily we come across beggars and homeless people.
- The way of it was, I was sent out with a broom to chase away the gypsy beggars at the door looking for food or money, and he happened to step in the way.
- One young beggar, surnamed Liu, begins his work before dawn and can earn more than 200 yuan a day.
- I do voluntary work, am a Christian, invariably give money to beggars and try to spread a little happiness as I go by.
- She was no more than a poor beggar, young, sick and starving.
- Perhaps, the rich people should learn from the poor beggars who always rummage through the garbage for their daily survival.
- If I give money to a beggar it is because I want to do something nice for him.
- ‘One of your beggars asked me for money for a cup of coffee,’ he said.
- You might call him a beggar, or a homeless man, or whatever.
- I can't spare anything for little beggar children like you.
- How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
- He vaguely remembered his mother telling him those same words many years ago when he was giving spare lunch money to a beggar.
- So he never responds when a blind or crippled beggar or a mother cradling her baby holds out a hand for money.
Synonyms tramp, beggarman, beggarwoman, vagrant, vagabond, down-and-out, homeless person, derelict, mendicant pauper, poor person North American hobo informal scrounger, sponger, cadger, freeloader, bag lady, have-not, crusty British informal dosser North American informal bum, moocher, mooch, schnorrer Australian/New Zealand informal bagman, swagman, bludger rare clochard 2informal with adjective A person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied. 〈非正式〉（尤指令人羡慕或怜悯的）家伙 可怜的小家伙。 Example sentencesExamples - If it was any other country, you might even feel sorry for the poor beggars.
- Indeed, the poor beggars attending the meeting in April would have witnessed Lee's wholehearted endorsement of his chief executive's vision.
- Plus listen to my show this week to see how you can get in for free on my guestlist, you lucky beggars!
- After all, the poor beggars can't nip outside for a quick drag, can they?
- He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
- Among those who will not be weeping into their hankies over his ‘resignation’ are the poor beggars in York he put out of work.
- Woe to the poor beggar upon whom he sees, or thinks he sees, spots or blemishes.
- The cool million generally goes to some lucky beggar down south.
- The poor beggar's badly burned body was supposed to be in the coffin awaiting collection.
- Let the poor beggars have a childhood and allow reception-class teachers to down their clipboards and go back to teaching them.
- There were many a poor beggar who saw the show and realized they could become something if they tried!
- Unfortunately it was just another Sunday evening rush trip to keep my hand in, as I couldn't be with those lucky beggars spending the weekend down in Wales.
Synonyms fellow, thing, individual, soul, character, creature, wretch person, man, woman, boy, girl informal guy, fella, devil, bunny, bastard British informal chap, bloke, bugger, sod, bod North American informal dude, hombre informal, dated body, dog British informal, dated cove archaic wight
verb ˈbɛɡəˈbɛɡər [with object]Reduce (someone) to poverty. 使贫穷 why should I beggar myself for you? 我为什么要因你而穷困潦倒呢？ Example sentencesExamples - That would stop the competition gaining market share by beggaring your own people.
- It is totally inconsistent to now argue that we must defend the system that has beggared cattle and sheep farmers.
- It is stupid - they should simply write cheques to exporters rather than beggaring everybody.
- You may be condemning your children to a school career of misery if you have beggared yourself to send them to school with children whose treats and trips are costly.
- Apart from beggaring the public purse, it simply beggars belief.
- And while he was beggaring and ruining his country, they were in command of the Arab oil market… of which they're not going to be.
- But now after a succession of bad fruit years, it is no wonder the farmers complain of being beggared by malt and hops!
- They concluded that creating a conventional military force as large as the USSR's risked beggaring the U.S. economy.
- Not too much to beggar the family, but not too little as to be meaningless.
- The latest crisis, in 2001, which beggared nearly half the population, is not the first time that a period of relative prosperity and rapid economic growth was followed by an economic and political disaster.
- I realise now that my parents beggared themselves to provide the life they did for us.
- They demands that families beggar themselves to send their children to university.
- Economically, they will learn of the toll that nuclear weapons can take on economic growth and development even if they do not beggar us completely.
- Or would he choose to beggar the kingdom, leaving it weak and defenceless against his forces, just for the entertainment?
- You cannot ‘care for Africa’ and at the same time stand four-square behind multinationals who beggar us.
- The nobility, though exempt from taxation, faced problems of its own: many families had been beggared by the wars, and peace left their sons without employment.
- Moreover, it would not only beggar our neighbours but eventually Australia as well, by preventing Australian businesses from competing effectively in global markets.
- Now if it could be shown that beggaring rich people inevitably enriches poor people there might be something to say for a crusade against inequality.
- But I think he would have beggared himself to buy it.
- Those of the left claimed that naive women were seduced into becoming avaricious consumers, beggaring their families.
Synonyms impoverish, make poor, reduce to poverty, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bankrupt, make bankrupt, make destitute, ruin, wipe out, break, cripple bring someone to their knees rare pauperize
Phrasesbeggar belief (or description) Be too extraordinary to be believed or described. （因十分异乎寻常而令人）难以置信（或难以形容） a disregard for common sense which beggars belief Example sentencesExamples - ‘Cave-in’ doesn't even begin to describe mismanagement so far off the scale as to beggar belief.
- The stupidity of people sometimes beggars belief.
- Trying to imagine how these structures were built beggars belief.
- The scale of the whole thing just beggars belief.
- The elephants, had, of course, knocked these down in their passage, so going downhill was one long slide and going up beggars description.
- Although the inadequate measures to deal with the problem beggar belief, what is even more incredible is the mentality of a farmer or a householder who will dispose of their rubbish by dumping it into the nearest river.
- The moan that the new town council members were not formally invited is not really worthy of any comment save to say it beggars all belief.
- The lack of a cohesive strategy beggars belief.
- He was asked about the lack of coverage of the protest and his reply simply beggars belief;
- Which beggars the question - how did you find this place?
- To suggest that it could have happened as a belated reaction to a pre-election budget, no matter how lavish, simply beggars belief.
- It beggars belief that a group of local councillors can really believe there is any merit in this option.
- But it beggars belief that so many have been built and bought and no-one making decisions has even thought about how it is affecting ordinary people.
- ‘It beggars belief that we even got the insurance sorted so that we could do it,’ says Vegas.
- Why it simply beggars belief that such a thing could happen!
- It beggars belief that anyone could do such a thing, let alone to a defensive pensioner going about her weekly business completely innocently.
- The behaviour of some of the late night revellers almost beggars belief.
- This film is so cheap, ridiculous and inept, it beggars description.
- It beggars belief that the system allows funding bids to be assessed in this way.
- India is so large, so ancient, so complex that it beggars description.
Synonyms inexpressible, undefinable, beyond description, beyond words, beggaring description, nameless, incommunicable, ineffable, unutterable, unspeakable
beggars can't be choosers proverb People with no other options must be content with what is offered. 〈谚〉要饭的哪能挑肥拣瘦；没有选择余地就只好满足于能得到的东西 Example sentencesExamples - It was worth a lot more but beggars can't be choosers.
- Sadly not a two-seater but beggars can't be choosers.
- But my funds are getting down to the wire and so beggars can't be choosers…
- I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers.
- This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers.
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil proverb Someone unaccustomed to power or luxury will abuse or be corrupted by it. 〈谚〉小人掌权必猖狂；叫花子发财得意忘形 Example sentencesExamples - Or, as he says: "When by the advice of that eminent physician, Dr. Lettsom, I purchased a horse, and saved my life by the exercise it afforded me, the old adage, 'Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil,' was deemed fully verified."
OriginMiddle English: from beg + -ar3. Rhymeseggar, Gregor, mega, Megger Definition of beggar in US English: beggarnounˈbeɡərˈbɛɡər 1A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food. （尤指无家可归的）乞丐，叫花子 Example sentencesExamples - She was no more than a poor beggar, young, sick and starving.
- The way of it was, I was sent out with a broom to chase away the gypsy beggars at the door looking for food or money, and he happened to step in the way.
- We have to discourage begging and simultaneously find beggars another way of earning a living.
- ‘One of your beggars asked me for money for a cup of coffee,’ he said.
- I live in London, where daily we come across beggars and homeless people.
- He vaguely remembered his mother telling him those same words many years ago when he was giving spare lunch money to a beggar.
- Rather than return to jail after a weekend outside, Markov became a homeless man, cultivating the look of a madman in order to get more money as a beggar.
- On the way to his house Yuki was flagged down by many beggars and poor crippled souls.
- Perhaps, the rich people should learn from the poor beggars who always rummage through the garbage for their daily survival.
- One young beggar, surnamed Liu, begins his work before dawn and can earn more than 200 yuan a day.
- They are so stressed they have become like homeless beggars.
- You might call him a beggar, or a homeless man, or whatever.
- For those homeless and beggars in the streets, life was even more miserable.
- How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
- I do voluntary work, am a Christian, invariably give money to beggars and try to spread a little happiness as I go by.
- The streets were crowded with poor dirty beggars.
- So he never responds when a blind or crippled beggar or a mother cradling her baby holds out a hand for money.
- If I give money to a beggar it is because I want to do something nice for him.
- It would give beggars a chance to have a decent living.
- I can't spare anything for little beggar children like you.
Synonyms tramp, beggarman, beggarwoman, vagrant, vagabond, down-and-out, homeless person, derelict, mendicant 2informal with adjective A person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied. 〈非正式〉（尤指令人羡慕或怜悯的）家伙 可怜的小家伙。 Example sentencesExamples - After all, the poor beggars can't nip outside for a quick drag, can they?
- The cool million generally goes to some lucky beggar down south.
- The poor beggar's badly burned body was supposed to be in the coffin awaiting collection.
- Plus listen to my show this week to see how you can get in for free on my guestlist, you lucky beggars!
- There were many a poor beggar who saw the show and realized they could become something if they tried!
- Among those who will not be weeping into their hankies over his ‘resignation’ are the poor beggars in York he put out of work.
- He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
- Woe to the poor beggar upon whom he sees, or thinks he sees, spots or blemishes.
- Let the poor beggars have a childhood and allow reception-class teachers to down their clipboards and go back to teaching them.
- Unfortunately it was just another Sunday evening rush trip to keep my hand in, as I couldn't be with those lucky beggars spending the weekend down in Wales.
- If it was any other country, you might even feel sorry for the poor beggars.
- Indeed, the poor beggars attending the meeting in April would have witnessed Lee's wholehearted endorsement of his chief executive's vision.
Synonyms fellow, thing, individual, soul, character, creature, wretch
verbˈbeɡərˈbɛɡər [with object]Reduce (someone) to poverty. 使贫穷 by being soft to the unfortunate, we beggared ourselves Example sentencesExamples - They demands that families beggar themselves to send their children to university.
- Moreover, it would not only beggar our neighbours but eventually Australia as well, by preventing Australian businesses from competing effectively in global markets.
- I realise now that my parents beggared themselves to provide the life they did for us.
- Economically, they will learn of the toll that nuclear weapons can take on economic growth and development even if they do not beggar us completely.
- It is totally inconsistent to now argue that we must defend the system that has beggared cattle and sheep farmers.
- It is stupid - they should simply write cheques to exporters rather than beggaring everybody.
- The latest crisis, in 2001, which beggared nearly half the population, is not the first time that a period of relative prosperity and rapid economic growth was followed by an economic and political disaster.
- They concluded that creating a conventional military force as large as the USSR's risked beggaring the U.S. economy.
- But I think he would have beggared himself to buy it.
- But now after a succession of bad fruit years, it is no wonder the farmers complain of being beggared by malt and hops!
- And while he was beggaring and ruining his country, they were in command of the Arab oil market… of which they're not going to be.
- That would stop the competition gaining market share by beggaring your own people.
- You may be condemning your children to a school career of misery if you have beggared yourself to send them to school with children whose treats and trips are costly.
- The nobility, though exempt from taxation, faced problems of its own: many families had been beggared by the wars, and peace left their sons without employment.
- Or would he choose to beggar the kingdom, leaving it weak and defenceless against his forces, just for the entertainment?
- Now if it could be shown that beggaring rich people inevitably enriches poor people there might be something to say for a crusade against inequality.
- You cannot ‘care for Africa’ and at the same time stand four-square behind multinationals who beggar us.
- Not too much to beggar the family, but not too little as to be meaningless.
- Those of the left claimed that naive women were seduced into becoming avaricious consumers, beggaring their families.
- Apart from beggaring the public purse, it simply beggars belief.
Synonyms impoverish, make poor, reduce to poverty, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bankrupt, make bankrupt, make destitute, ruin, wipe out, break, cripple
Phrasesbeggar belief (or description) Be too extraordinary to be believed or described. （因十分异乎寻常而令人）难以置信（或难以形容） Example sentencesExamples - The moan that the new town council members were not formally invited is not really worthy of any comment save to say it beggars all belief.
- But it beggars belief that so many have been built and bought and no-one making decisions has even thought about how it is affecting ordinary people.
- The elephants, had, of course, knocked these down in their passage, so going downhill was one long slide and going up beggars description.
- ‘Cave-in’ doesn't even begin to describe mismanagement so far off the scale as to beggar belief.
- Why it simply beggars belief that such a thing could happen!
- It beggars belief that anyone could do such a thing, let alone to a defensive pensioner going about her weekly business completely innocently.
- This film is so cheap, ridiculous and inept, it beggars description.
- ‘It beggars belief that we even got the insurance sorted so that we could do it,’ says Vegas.
- It beggars belief that a group of local councillors can really believe there is any merit in this option.
- The stupidity of people sometimes beggars belief.
- The behaviour of some of the late night revellers almost beggars belief.
- Although the inadequate measures to deal with the problem beggar belief, what is even more incredible is the mentality of a farmer or a householder who will dispose of their rubbish by dumping it into the nearest river.
- He was asked about the lack of coverage of the protest and his reply simply beggars belief;
- The scale of the whole thing just beggars belief.
- India is so large, so ancient, so complex that it beggars description.
- Trying to imagine how these structures were built beggars belief.
- It beggars belief that the system allows funding bids to be assessed in this way.
- Which beggars the question - how did you find this place?
- The lack of a cohesive strategy beggars belief.
- To suggest that it could have happened as a belated reaction to a pre-election budget, no matter how lavish, simply beggars belief.
Synonyms inexpressible, undefinable, beyond description, beyond words, beggaring description, nameless, incommunicable, ineffable, unutterable, unspeakable
beggars can't be choosers proverb People with no other options must be content with what is offered. 〈谚〉要饭的哪能挑肥拣瘦；没有选择余地就只好满足于能得到的东西 Example sentencesExamples - But my funds are getting down to the wire and so beggars can't be choosers…
- Sadly not a two-seater but beggars can't be choosers.
- I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers.
- This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers.
- It was worth a lot more but beggars can't be choosers.
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil proverb Someone unaccustomed to power or luxury will abuse or be corrupted by it. 〈谚〉小人掌权必猖狂；叫花子发财得意忘形 Example sentencesExamples - Or, as he says: "When by the advice of that eminent physician, Dr. Lettsom, I purchased a horse, and saved my life by the exercise it afforded me, the old adage, 'Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil,' was deemed fully verified."
OriginMiddle English: from beg + -ar. |