mendicant

英 [ˈmendɪkənt]

美 [ˈmendɪkənt]

adj.  化缘的; 行乞的
n.  乞丐，托钵僧

复数：mendicants　

GRE

BNC.48778 / COCA.37406

牛津词典

adj.

• 化缘的；行乞的
  living by asking people for money and food

英英释义

noun

• a pauper who lives by begging
  Synonym:beggar
• a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
  Synonym:friar

adj

• practicing beggary
  1. mendicant friars

双语例句

• He was a miserable scamp, a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who abandoned her as she HAD taken him, in disgust.
  那人是一个穷汉，一个流浪音乐师，一个好吃懒做的无赖，他打她，春宵既度，便起了厌恶的心，把她丢了。
• 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。
• Mendicant friars were often involved in missionary work.
  托钵僧经常参与传教工作。
• This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly helpless, so that he may beg for mother's wealth of love.
  这个亲爱的赤裸的小小的乞儿，故意装做完全无助的样子，想要以此来乞求妈妈满溢的爱。
• He seemed no ordinary mendicant.
  他好像不是寻常的乞丐。
• Indeed, if I had become a sadhu, a mendicant holy man, wandering the great trunk roads of British India, begging bowl in hand, I would have met with less derision and won more respect.
  事实上，如果我去做一个苦行僧，就是一个行乞的圣人，在英属印度的宽阔道路上拿着碗乞讨，也不会遇到那么多嘲笑，反而还会赢得更多尊敬。
• The Franciscans were a mendicant order.
  方济各会是托钵修道会的一种。
• Yes, yes, I know you, modest mendicant, you ask for all that one has.
  好吧，好吧，我了解你，谦卑的乞丐的是一个人的全部所有。
• A male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel.
  传播福音的乞丐传教士秩序中的男性僧侣。
• Urban Mendicant Problems under the View of the "Social Exclusion"
  社会排斥视角下的城市乞丐问题