pelf meaning in English
n.
1.〔蔑称〕钱。
2.〔英方〕不义之财，赃物。
3.〔俚语〕废物，破烂东西。
Examples
- The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power
穷人在挨饿。他们却饲养着高贵的牡山鹿，沉溺在目光短浅的虚饰中，利用他们的财富和权势，对庄稼人也罢，鹧鸪也罢，胡乱射杀。 - But a day of reckoning , he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice - thoroughly monopolising all the conversation - was in store for mighty england , despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes
但是靠犯罪行为取得的不义之财不论多么庞大， ”他用渐强音149蛮有把握地说并垄断了座中的谈话“强大的英国总有一天必然会遭到报应。