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.
双语例句
1. Let him disenslave himself from the pelf of the world.
让他从金钱束缚下解放自己.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
2. Other households had found her too talkative and too opinionated, forever giving pelf mysterious airs.
在别处,有人嫌她太张道, 主意多,时常有些神眉鬼道儿的.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
3. This escapist pelf has very little to say about the real world, much less American society.
