mendicant
英['mend?k(?)nt]
美['m?nd?k?nt]
- adj. 行乞的；托缽修道會(huì)的
- n. 乞丐；托缽僧
中文詞源
mendicant 行乞者，化緣者
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)mendicare,乞討，討要，來(lái)自menda,缺陷，身體殘疾，來(lái)自PIE*mend,缺陷，殘疾，詞源同amend.因乞討者多為身體殘疾者。引申詞義行乞者，化緣者。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He seemed not an ordinary mendicant.
- 他好象不是尋常的乞丐。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 2. This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly helpless.
- 這可愛(ài)的赤裸的乞兒,假裝全然無(wú)助.
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- 3. A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
- 托缽修會(huì)修士常化緣的羅馬天主教會(huì)成員.
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- 4. Then the mendicant did it.
- 接著乞丐就做了倒立.
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- 5. A fifth order, the Servites, founded in 1233, was acknowledged as mendicant order in 1424.
- 第五一聲令下, servites, 成立于1233年, 被認(rèn)定為乞討,以便在1424年.
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