英语单词

vagabond是什么意思

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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5. They are living a vagabond life.
他们过着流浪的生活.

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