• n. 流浪兒；貧民窟的小孩

gutter, 檐溝。snipe, 沙錐鳥。即臭水溝里撿東西吃的人。

guttersnipe (n.)

also gutter-snipe, 1857, from gutter (n.) + snipe (n.); originally Wall Street slang for "streetcorner broker," attested later (1869) as "street urchin," also "one who gathers rags and paper from gutters." As a name for the common snipe, it dates from 1874 but is perhaps earlier.

1. She a canny guttersnipe, and the Hive seems a second skin for her.

她是個精明的流浪兒, 巢穴就像是她的第二層皮膚一樣.

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