mountebank

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I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!
我本來(lái)?yè)?dān)心這女人除去拿她的孩子裝幌子再也沒有更好的想法呢！
I remember. there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which(as he told the country people)were very good against an earthquake(Joseph Addison.
我記得…有一個(gè)厚顏無(wú)恥的商人來(lái)推銷能（據(jù)他對(duì)村民們所說(shuō)的）對(duì)付地震極為有效的藥片（約瑟夫·艾迪生）。
The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.
那兩個(gè)孩子，也許是被什么警察收留關(guān)進(jìn)拘留所了，或是被什么江湖藝人拐走了，或者壓根兒就是迷失在這個(gè)無(wú)邊無(wú)際的巴黎迷宮里了，他們沒有回來(lái)。

someone who pretends to be someone or something that they are not, or to be able to do something that they cannot