vagabond
英 ['vægəbɒnd]
美 ['væɡəbɑnd]
- adj. 流浪的；流浪者的；浪蕩的；漂泊的
- n. 流浪者；浪子；流氓；懶漢
- vi. 到處流浪
助記提示
1. vac-, van- => vague => vagabond.
2. vague => vagabond.
3. gerundive suffix -bundus => -bond.
4. vague => vagary, vagrant.
中文詞源
vagabond 流浪漢來自拉丁語vagabundus,漫遊，流浪，vag-, 漫遊，詞源同vagus, -bundus, 拉丁語動名詞後綴，詞源同be.
英文詞源
- vagabond
- vagabond: [15] A vagabond is etymologically a ‘wanderer’. The word comes via Old French vagabond from Latin vagābundus, which was derived from vagārī ‘wander’ (source also of English termagant, vagary [16], and vagrant [15]). And vagārī in turn was based on vagus ‘wandering, undecided’ (source also of English vague [16]).
=> termagant, vagary, vagrant, vague - vagabond (adj.)
- early 15c. (earlier vacabond, c. 1400), from Old French vagabond, vacabond "wandering, unsteady" (14c.), from Late Latin vagabundus "wandering, strolling about," from Latin vagari "wander" (from vagus "wandering, undecided;" see vague) + gerundive suffix -bundus.
- vagabond (n.)
- c. 1400, earlier wagabund (in a criminal indictment from 1311); see vagabond (adj.). Despite the earliest use, in Middle English often merely "one who is without a settled home, a vagrant" but not necessarily in a bad sense. Notion of "idle, disreputable person" predominated from 17c.
雙語例句
- 1. You know my vagabond and restless habits.
- 你知道我的這種流浪漢習慣,我是閑不住的.
來自英漢文學 - 雙城記
- 2. Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation.
- 麗莉受不了窮親戚們那種乞丐般的苦日子.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Why , you poor foolish , ignorant vagabond, you've been cheated, that's what!
- 你這個缺心眼的湖塗蛋, 你受騙了, 就是這麽回事.
來自辭典例句
- 4. You are nothing but a vagabond.
- 你簡直成了浪蕩公子.
來自辭典例句
- 5. They are living a vagabond life.
- 他們過著流浪的生活.
來自辭典例句