vagabond
英['vægəbɒnd]
美['væɡəbɑnd]
- adj. 流浪的;流浪者的;浪荡的;漂泊的
- n. 流浪者;浪子;流氓;懒汉
- vi. 到处流浪
词态变化
复数: vagabonds;
助记提示
1. vac-, van- => vague => vagabond.
2. vague => vagabond.
3. gerundive suffix -bundus => -bond.
4. vague => vagary, vagrant.
中文词源
vagabond 流浪汉
来自拉丁语vagabundus,漫游,流浪,vag-, 漫游,词源同vagus, -bundus, 拉丁语动名词后缀,词源同be.
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. You know my vagabond and restless habits.
- 你知道我的这种流浪汉习惯,我是闲不住的.
来自英汉文学 - 双城记
- 2. Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation.
- 丽莉受不了穷亲戚们那种乞丐般的苦日子.
来自辞典例句
- 3. Why , you poor foolish , ignorant vagabond, you've been cheated, that's what!
- 你这个缺心眼的湖涂蛋, 你受骗了, 就是这么回事.
来自辞典例句
- 4. You are nothing but a vagabond.
- 你简直成了浪荡公子.
来自辞典例句
- 5. They are living a vagabond life.
- 他们过着流浪的生活.
来自辞典例句