riff-raff

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈrɪf.ræf]
• 美式音标 [ˈrɪf.ræf]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.底层生活；指群体不值得尊敬的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Western Europe may have cheered the revolution, but it fears a flood of riff-raff from the east.
  西欧可能会对革命欢欣鼓舞，但也担心来自东部的贫民潮。
• Littered on the grass, we seemed dingy, urban riff-raff. We defiled the scene, like sardine-tins and paper bags on the seashore.
  我们呢，却好像是一堆肮脏的城市垃圾，被胡乱丢在草地上，如同海滩上的纸袋和沙丁鱼罐头盒一样败坏风景。
• Police harassment is minimal, “at least to start with”. Riff-raff and drunks from surrounding villages are kept away by tight security.
  人们很少受到警察骚扰（至少刚开始是这样），严格的安保赶走了附近村子的社会闲散人员和醉汉。

权威例句

• He was like the rest of us riff-raff, middle class kids from unglamorous hard working families who believed in the future.
  FORBES: Getting Over Our Over-Levered Selves
• The new tax may send a definite message to wealthy citizens to redistribute their wealth to the rest of the Russian riff-raff.
  FORBES: Rich Russians Also Lament New Tax Hikes
• Mr Evans blames the city's strict regulation of street concerts—which cynics say serves more to protect club owners from competition than to keep the riff-raff away.
  ECONOMIST: Letter from the Mississippi Delta: The rebirth of the blues

词组短语

短语

• the riff -raff 指缺乏教养的劳动阶层

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• people with a bad reputation or of a low social class

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to a group of people as riffraff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable.

专业释义

新闻学与传播学

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