Mountebank
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[编辑] 解释
[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
