barmecide meaning in English
n.
允许给人好处而不兑现的人，口惠而实不至的人。
adj.
口惠而实不至的，欺骗性的，虚伪的。
Examples
- Your lighter boxes of family papers went up - stairs into a barmecide room , that always had a great dining - table in it and never had a dinner , and where , even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty , the first letters written to you by your old love , or by your little children , were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows , by the heads exposed on temple bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of abyssinia or ashantee
你装有家庭文件的较轻的箱子则被送到楼上一间巴米赛德型的大厅里，那里永远有一张巨大的餐桌，却从来没摆过筵席。在那儿，即使到了一千七百八十年，你的情人给你写的初恋的情书和你的幼年的孩子给你写的最初的信件刚才免于受到一排首级窥看的恐怖不久。