• adj. 身無分文的；窮光蛋的

俚語，改寫自 skinned,被剝皮的。引申比喻義沒錢的，不足一文的。

skint (adj.)

"broke, out of money," 1925, slang variant of skinned, past participle of skin (v.).

1. I'm skint! Lend us a tenner.

我一個(gè)子兒也沒有了，借我們10英鎊吧。

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2. A skinny , sickly and, for much of his life , skint individual , Perutz is an unlikely hero.

佩魯茨體弱多病, 清貧一生, 卻出人意料的成了科學(xué)界的英雄.

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3. What's more, the penny - pinching has nothing much to do with the fact that Britain is skint.

更要緊的是, 這吝嗇基本不是因?yàn)橛娴氖莻€(gè)窮光蛋.

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