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.
vagrant 英文释义
1. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
vagrant 双语例句
1. A vagrant is everywhere at home.
流浪者四海为家.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3. He lived on the street as a vagrant.
他以在大街上乞讨为生。
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4. We met a band of vagrant beggars there.
我们在那里遇到了一伙流浪的乞丐.
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5. The degree of contrast will also be diminished by the presence of some vagrant ordinary light.
反差度还将因某些杂散自然光的存在而降低.
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vagrant 实用场景例句
He lived on the street as a vagrant.
他以在大街上乞讨为生。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He who has no home is a vagrant; he who has two homes is dissolute.
一个没有家的人是流浪汉; 有两个家的人是放荡者.
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The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters.
月亮像磷光在漂浮的水面上发光.
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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.
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Christlike vagrant wanders through a perverse and grotesque land filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery.
一个长得像基督的流浪汉在一个充满宗教和渎圣景象的怪异堕落之地游荡.
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The vagrant had to beg for money.
那个流浪汉不得不乞求钱财.
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The degree of contrast will also be diminished by the presence of some vagrant ordinary light.
反差度还将因某些杂散自然光的存在而降低.
辞典例句
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.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
I saw a vagrant follow a foreigner and want get some money from him.
昨天在路上,看见一个流浪汉一直跟著一位外籍人士想要些钱.
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And so far I still live the life of a vagrant.
直到现在还是过着流浪的生活.
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Vagrant in the province is popular , with a Sang persuade farmers.
于兹省氓俗, 一用劝农桑.
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I must to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life.
我要再到大海去, 过吉卜赛人般的流浪生活.
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Then a smile here. Shasha. like a child. Youshi a vagrant woman.
然后一个人在这里笑. 傻傻的. 似一个孩子. 又似一个落魄的女子.
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Spring flowers residual cardiac deficiencies go, how autumn vagrant hearts?
春心未尽花残去, 秋风怎过荡子心?
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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.
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We met a band of vagrant beggars there.
我们在那里遇到了一伙流浪的乞丐.
辞典例句
You shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on earth.
你会成为流浪汉,到处漂泊.
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Presently a vagrant poodle came idling along.
现在一条流浪的狮子狗悠然走过来.
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I told you to act like a drunk vagrant imbecile.
我告诉你,要装得象个喝醉的白痴.
电影对白
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.
辞典例句
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
流浪者四海为家.
《简明英汉词典》
The moon glows like phosphorus on the vagrant waters.
