英语词汇“Fagin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Fagin

释义

Fagin|ˈfeɪgɪn|
The name of a character in Dickens's ‘Oliver Twist’, a receiver who trained children to be thieves and pickpockets; allusively used for a thief, a trainer of thieves, or a receiver.
1847Punch 2 Oct. 125 The Fagin of France after condemnation. (Slightly altered from ‘Oliver Twist’.)1905Daily Chron. 14 Apr. 6/6 Thieves' kitchen kept by two modern Fagins... This school of crime bore outwardly the innocent semblance of a greengrocery and ice-cream shop... The two Fagins who conducted it were..both Italians. [1907Ibid. 17 May 3/4 The Fagin-like person who has hitherto been King of the Nile.]1965Listener 26 Aug. 292/2 The young unemployed.., the bastards.., the artful dodgers..thus have 500 Fagins to instruct them in everything from petty thievery to drug addiction.1970C. Drummond Stab in Back iv. 82 In the world of receivers of stolen property a kind of system of titles prevails, starting with ‘Cousin Joe’, progressing upwards through ‘the Uncle’ to ‘Father’—very important indeed, but dwarfed by..a gentleman known as ‘the Fagin’.

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