mendicant
mendicant 英 [ˈmendɪkənt] 美 [ˈmɛndɪkənt]
adj. 行乞的；托钵修道会的 n. 乞丐；托钵僧
名词复数:mendicants
- People who live off begging can be called mendicants. However, you probably wouldn't call your kids mendicants, even though they beg you for stuff, because the word mendicant also implies extreme poverty.
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- adj. 行乞的；托钵修道会的
- n. 乞丐；托钵僧
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1. Long after this, in a street in Bolpur, a mendicant Baul was singing as he walked along
很久以后，在鲍尔普尔的一条街上，一个行乞的歌手一面走一面唱
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2. This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined with extreme cleanliness.
那人，从他的服装和神气看去，是极其穷苦而又极其整洁的，可以说是体现了人们称为高等乞丐的那一种。
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3. Another monster monk is Mikoshi-nyudo (a.k.a. Miage-nyudo), a large, cross-eyed mendicant encountered on mountain passes or on lonely roads at night.
另一种妖怪僧人叫做见越入道，身材高大，长著一对斜眼，一般在山间小道或夜晚的小路上会遇见。
- mendicant (adj.) late 14c., from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans) present participle of mendicare "to beg, ask alms," from mendicus "beggar," originally "cripple" (connection via cripples who must beg), from menda "fault, physical defect" (see mendacious). As an adjective from 1540s. Also in Middle English was mendinant (mid-14c.), from Old French mendinant, present participle of mendiner "to beg," from the same Latin source.
- mendicant (n.) "a beggar," mid-15c., from mendicant (adj.) or from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans), noun use of present participle of mendicare.
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