vagrant

英 [ˈveɪɡrənt]

美 [ˈveɪɡrənt]

n.  无业游民; 流浪者; (尤指)乞丐
adj.  流浪的; （思想）游移不定的; （风等）无定向的; （植物）蔓生的

复数：vagrants　

GRETEM8

BNC.16730 / COCA.23961

牛津词典

noun

• 无业游民；流浪者；（尤指）乞丐
  a person who has no home or job, especially one who begs (= asks for money) from people

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 流浪汉;漂泊者;乞丐
  Avagrantis someone who moves a lot from place to place because they have no permanent home or job, and have to ask for or steal things in order to live.
  1. He lived on the street as a vagrant.
     他以在大街上乞讨为生。

英英释义

noun

• a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
  Synonym:drifterfloatervagabond

adj

• continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
  1. a drifting double-dealer
  2. the floating population
  3. vagrant hippies of the sixties
  Synonym:aimlessdriftingfloatingvagabond

双语例句

• Through the silent night I hear the returning vagrant hopes of the morning knock at my heart.
  透过寂静的深夜，我听到清晨漂泊的希望归来叩响我的心扉。
• He who has no home is vagrant; He who has two homes is dissolute.
  没家的男人是个流浪汉，有两个家的男人是放浪者。
• I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
  我一定要再回海上，如吉普赛人那样流浪。
• Away went the policeman and the vagrant was left alone, helpless on a cold winter night.
  警察离开了，那个流浪汉在冬日的夜晚无助地一个人呆着。
• In the old society, owing to cruel exploitation and succesive years of tangled warfare among warloads, the labouring people led a vagrant life.
  在旧社会，残酷的剥削和连年不断的军阀混战，使劳动人民过着颠沛流离的生活。
• He is the justice of the peace that jug me for a vagrant.
  他就是把我作为游民关进牢房的治安法官。
• The old vagrant believes that poverty has its advantages.
  那个老流浪汉认为穷也有穷的好处。
• These vagrant children are from impoverished families in the under-developed remote rural areas.
  这些流浪儿童来自经济欠发达的偏远农村地区的贫困家庭。
• He had to leave for escaping from the conscripting and his vagrant life was begun from that time.
  为了逃避徭役，他不得不背井离乡，开始了自己逃亡的生涯。
• I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on earth, and any one who meets me can kill me.
  今天你把我从那里赶走，不让我再出现在你面前，我将成为一个流浪汉，到处漂泊，遇见我的人都可能杀死我。