the riffraff

基本解釋

Very little was given to his crime, but it was there, several "sticks" in all, among all the riffraff of telegraphed murders, accidents, marriages, and other news.
關(guān)於他的罪行的報道極少，但還是有，一共就那麼寥寥幾行，夾在那些亂七八糟的關(guān)於各地謀殺、車禍、結(jié)婚以及其它消息的電訊報道之中。
He would entertain there the factor of Taiohae, captains of wandering traders, and all the best of the South Pacific riffraff.
他要在那兒宴請?zhí)┰D黑的商務(wù)代辦、往來的商船船長和南太平洋流浪漢中的頭麪人物。
These people give me the creeps. Riffraff!
這些人使我起雞皮疙瘩。真是一群痞子！

The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!
這些烏郃之衆(zhòng)是貪食者;,然後猶太人邊哭邊說，“要是有肉喫就好了！
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Here, they were protected from the riffraff, the neighborhood, even from Mother Nature, in the form of floods or biting insects.
NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
NEWYORKER: Cell One
In town there was a professional summer theatre, a new thing at the time, which some people were enthusiastic about and others worried about, fearing that it would bring in riffraff.
NEWYORKER: Gravel