carpetbag

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
    — Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
动词 v.
  1. To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain. US
    — The Five Star Movement has long railed against carpetbagging, but for all of Ms. D’Alessandro’s efforts to seem of the place — talking about her childhood in Naples and showing the bar where she had her first date — she clearly isn’t.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers. US,not-comparable
    — carpetbag travels

词形变化

carpetbags plural carpet-bag alternative,archaic carpetbags present,singular,third-person carpetbagging participle,present carpetbagged participle,past carpetbagged past carpet-bag alternative,archaic carpet-bag alternative,archaic

词源

词源 1
From carpet + bag.
词源 2
From carpet + bag.
词源 3
From carpet + bag.
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