brummagem 中文意思是什麼

brummagem 解釋
adj. 形容詞 〈口語〉1. (珠寶、錢幣等)假的,冒充的。
2. (裝飾品等)花哨而便宜的。
n. 名詞 便宜貨;假珠〈從擅長製造假珠寶等的城市 Birmingham 的轉訛〉。

  1. Brummagem england was toppling already and her downfall would be ireland, her achilles heel, which he explained to them about the vulnerable point of achilles, the greek hero - a point his auditors at once seized as he completely gripped their attention by showing the tendon referred to on his boot

    愛爾蘭將是它的阿戲留的腳踵。 」他又就希臘英雄阿戲留那易受傷害的部位為他們做了一番解釋152 。由於他隔著靴子指了指腱在哪兒,就完全吸引了聽眾的注意,從而大家也立即恍然大悟了。
  2. Most people … cared nothing about birmingham, which they had heard of only as a dirty place where most of the bad pennies ( brummagem buttons ) come from

    許多人… …都不喜歡伯明翰,他們只知道它是個藏圬納垢的城市,大部分的假錢都是從那裡來的。
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