mid-14c., "stolen goods," from Anglo-French pelf, Old French pelfre "booty, spoils" (11c.), of unknown origin; also see pilfer. Meaning "money, riches," with a pejorative overtone first recorded c. 1500.
雙語例句
1. Let him disenslave himself from the pelf of the world.
讓他從金錢束縛下解放自己.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. Other households had found her too talkative and too opinionated, forever giving pelf mysterious airs.
在別處,有人嫌她太張道, 主意多,時常有些神眉鬼道兒的.
來自漢英文學(xué) - 駱駝祥子
3. This escapist pelf has very little to say about the real world, much less American society.