vagrant
vagrant 英 [ˈveɪgrənt] 美 [ˈveɡrənt]
adj. 流浪的；漂泊的；游荡的 n. 游民；流浪者；无赖；漂泊者
名词复数:vagrants
- A vagrant is someone who is homeless and poor and may wander from place to place. In fiction a vagrant often is a criminal, but a real-life vagrant might just be a person who has lost a job and family and lives off the streets with help from charity.
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- adj. 流浪的；漂泊的；游荡的
- n. 游民；流浪者；无赖；漂泊者
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1. What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?
对喜欢挽轭，视林中康鹿为迷途流浪者的公牛呢？
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2. Work, he insisted, is the only thing to turn a half-alive vagrant into a self-respecting human being.
工作，他坚持说，是唯一能把半死不活的流浪汉变成尊敬自己的人类的事。
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3. These numbers are arbitrary and don't matter too much, except that a large "vagrant" pool will dilute the value of cell selection, while a small pool will limit the element of chance.
这些数字是任意的，不太重要，只不过，一个大的“无限制”的池将 使细胞选择的值的适合度降低，而一个小的池将限制元素的机会。
- 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 (n.) 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.).
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