Mountebank

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[编辑] GRE 红宝书

  • n. 江湖郎中; 骗子
  • [英] n. 江湖郎中, 骗子 ( any charlatan, or quack)
  • [记] mounte ( 登高, 山丘) +bank ( =bench椅子) -> 登上椅子叫卖 -> 江湖郎中

[编辑] Webster Collegiate

kI. noun

  • Etymology: Italian montimbanco, from montare to mount + in in, on + banco, banca bench
  • Date: 1577
  • 1. a person who sells quack medicines from a platform
  • 2. a boastful unscrupulous pretender ; charlatan
  • ? mountebankery noun

II. verb

  • Date: 1607
  • transitive verb
    • obsolete to beguile or transform by trickery <I'll mountebank their loves — Shakespeare>
  • intransitive verb
    • to play the mountebank


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