pettifogger

英式音标：['petɪˌfɒgə]播放读音

美式音标：['petɪˌfɒgə]播放读音

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概况：

n. 骗人的律师；讼棍

词义：

n.

讼棍，骗人的律师；

英英释义

pettifogger[ 'peti,fɔɡə, -fɔ:ɡ ]

n.

a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

同义词：shyster

a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

同义词：quibblercavillercaviler

用法：

权威例句

Probabilistic pettifoggery

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Demanding a Voice Among the Pettifoggers: Sojourner Truth as Legal Actor

Attorney-Led Client Surveying: Curbing the Pettifogger Coefficient

Exploring the pettifogger's mode of activity and its characteristic in Qing dynasty through the case of Yeyong

Study on Written Complaints in Secret Pettifogger Handbooks of the Ming and Qing Dynasty

A Study on the Character of Legal Pettifogger(訟師) and Legal Culture Represented in Novel of Ming-Qing Dynasty

Soliciting Action,Extorting Property,Frustrating the Law:The Pettifogger from the Eyes of Qing Government

The Returned Soul:from Legal Pettifogger to "Litigation support":based on the Study of Jiangxi's "Monopolize Lawsuits"Cases in the ...

同义词：shyster

同根词：pettifogging,pettifoggery,pettifog

英语词源：

pettifogger (n.)

1560s, from petty; the second element possibly from obsolete Dutch focker, from Flemish focken "to cheat," or from cognate Middle English fugger, from Fugger the renowned family of merchants and financiers of 15c.-16c. Augsburg. In German, Flemish and Dutch, the name became a word for "monopolist, rich man, usurer."

A 'petty Fugger' would mean one who on a small scale practices the dishonourable devices for gain popularly attributed to great financiers; it seems possible that the phrase 'petty fogger of the law,' applied in this sense to some notorious person, may have caught the popular fancy. [OED first edition, in a rare burst of pure speculation]

However, OED also calls attention to pettifactor "legal agent who undertakes small cases" (1580s), which, though attested slightly later, might be the source of this. Related: Pettifoggery.

造句：

1. He was a prefect and house captain.

他是班长兼社长。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The Prefect was fond of the cant of diplomacy.

这位警察局长很爱好外交辞令.

来自辞典例句

3. The Prefect, had the fashion of calling everything " odd " that was beyond his comprehension.

警察局长习惯于把超过他理解能力以外的一切事情都叫做 “ 怪 ”.

来自辞典例句

4. The scum has calls from the prefect's own office!

那个人渣从地方长官的办公室打来电话!

来自电影对白

5. I prefect to see your head turn light to black.

喜欢看着你的头像由亮变黑的英文怎么说?

来自互联网

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