vagabond
vagabond 英 [ˈvægəbɒnd] 美 [ˈvægəbɑnd]
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
名词复数:vagabonds
- A vagabond is someone who moves around a lot. Picture Boxcar Willie, bandana on a stick thrown over his shoulder, going wherever the breeze takes him.
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- 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
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1. From that time onwards he continued his life as a vagabond mainly as what he himself calls a ‘soldier of fortune’.
从那以后，他继续着流浪的生活，正如他自己对自己所称呼的那样“命运战士”。
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2. They had to live a kind of bohemian life, the life of a vagabond; that was the only possibility for them to be creative.
他们必须去过一种波西米亚式的生活方式，一种流浪汉的生活方式，那是他们获得创造性的唯一可能性。
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3. Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won't let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders.
欣德利叫他流氓，并且不允许他和我们做在一起，也不能再和我们一起吃饭。 甚至，他说，我们两个不能再在一起玩，并威胁说，如果我们不听话，他会把希斯克利夫赶出家去。
- 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.
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