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

• I dreamt ( that) I started ( went for) a vagrant life with my friends on our bicycles, meandering along rural paths, wading creeks and brooks.
  我梦见我和我的朋友们一起去流浪了，骑着自行车，漫步在乡间小路。趟过小溪。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He determined lead a vagrant life and winded up his life.
  他决定要去流浪，了此一生。
• The vagrant had to beg for money.
  那个流浪汉不得不乞求钱财。
• First, the vagrant disappeared all of a sudden when she found that she was with the young of him.
  首先，当她发现自己怀上了流浪汉的孩子时，流浪汉却突然失踪了。
• We met a band of vagrant beggars there.
  我们在那里遇到了一伙流浪的乞丐。
• 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。
• Your father had me jailed for a vagrant.
  你父亲因我是盲流而将我关进牢房。