vagrant

• adj. 流浪的；漂泊的；遊蕩的
• n. 遊民；流浪者；無賴；漂泊者

通常認為來自古法語walcrer,漫遊者，流浪者，詞源同walk,拚寫受拉丁語vagus影響。

vagrant (n.)

mid-15c., "person who lacks regular employment, one without fixed abode, a tramp," probably from Anglo-French vageraunt, also wacrant, walcrant, which is said in many sources to be a noun use of the past participle of Old French walcrer "to wander," from Frankish (Germanic) *walken, from the same source as Old Norse valka "wander" and English walk (v.).

Under this theory the word was influenced by Old French vagant, vagaunt "wandering," from Latin vagantem (nominative vagans), past participle of vagari "to wander, stroll about" (see vagary). But on another theory the Anglo-French word ultimately is from Old French vagant, with an intrusive -r-. Middle English also had vagaunt "wandering, without fixed abode" (late 14c.), from Old French vagant.

vagrant (adj.)

early 15c., from Anglo-French vagarant, waucrant, and sharing with it the history to be found under vagrant (n.). Dogberry's corruption vagrom ("Much Ado about Nothing") persisted through 19c. in learned jocularity.

1. A vagrant is everywhere at home.

流浪者四海為家.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. In the old society, owing to cruel exploitation and succesive years of tangled warfare among warloads, the labouring people led a vagrant life.

在舊社會, 殘酷的剝削和連年不斷的軍閥混戰, 使勞動人民過著顛沛流離的生活.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. He lived on the street as a vagrant.

他以在大街上乞討為生。

來自辭典例句

4. We met a band of vagrant beggars there.

我們在那裏遇到了一夥流浪的乞丐.

來自辭典例句

5. The degree of contrast will also be diminished by the presence of some vagrant ordinary light.

反差度還將因某些雜散自然光的存在而降低.

來自辭典例句