riff-raff

音標發(fā)音

Western Europe may have cheered the revolution, but it fears a flood of riff-raff from the east.
西歐可能會對革命歡欣鼓舞，但也擔心來自東部的貧民潮。
Littered on the grass, we seemed dingy, urban riff-raff. We defiled the scene, like sardine-tins and paper bags on the seashore.
我們呢，卻好像是一堆骯臟的城市垃圾，被胡亂丟在草地上，如同海灘上的紙袋和沙丁魚罐頭盒一樣敗壞風景。
Police harassment is minimal, “at least to start with”. Riff-raff and drunks from surrounding villages are kept away by tight security.
人們很少受到警察騷擾（至少剛開始是這樣），嚴格的安保趕走了附近村子的社會閑散人員和醉漢。

He was like the rest of us riff-raff, middle class kids from unglamorous hard working families who believed in the future.
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Mr Evans blames the city's strict regulation of street concerts—which cynics say serves more to protect club owners from competition than to keep the riff-raff away.
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If you refer to a group of people as riffraff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable.