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mountebank 的用法和双语例句“点击”或“选中”例句中的单词,就可以看到词义解释
This german socialism , which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly , and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion , meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence .