食客 meaning in English
a person sponging on an aristocrat: a hanger on of an aristocrat
Examples
- Rich people are often surrounded by hangers-on .
富人经常被食客所包围。 - She was essentially feminine, in other words, a parasite and a chalice .
她在本质上是个女人，换句话说，是一个食客和一只酒杯。 - The coffee-room had no other occupant, that forenoon, than the gentleman in brown .
这一天早上，餐室里除了这位棕色绅士而外并没有别的食客。 - Through this jumble of futile activities came and went a strange throng of hangers-on .
在这乱哄哄的圈子里还穿梭般往来着一群稀奇古怪的食客。 - As he was quite a creature of mr. quilp's and had a thousand reasons for conciliating his good opinion, he tried to smile .
因为他是奎尔普先生的食客，有一千种的理由逢迎他，因此只好露出笑容。