Mendicant
['mendɪk(ə)nt] or ['mɛndɪkənt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
(n.) A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
伊娃手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Beggar, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.
艾哈迈德校對
解釋/意思:
adj. in the condition of a beggar: practising beggary.—n. one who is in extreme want: a beggar: a member of one of the R.C. orders who live by begging: a begging friar.—ns. Men′dicancy Mendic′ity the state of being a mendicant or beggar: the life of a beggar.—Mendicant orders religious bodies who depended on begging for their support.
乔安娜錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
For a woman to dream of mendicants, she will meet with disagreeable interferences in her plans for betterment and enjoyment.
手打:梅尔瓦
例句/造句/用法:
- In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Mrs Wilfer's first visit to the Mendicant's bride at the new abode of Mendicancy, was a grand event. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Before Mrs Wilfer could wave her gloves, the Mendicant's bride in her merriest affectionate manner went on again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I dared to put off the mendicant--to resume my natural manner and character. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- And I may feel well assured that your daughter Bella,' again turning to her husband, 'does not exalt her family by becoming a Mendicant's bride. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The mendicant orders derive their whole subsistence from such oblations. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Would you object to my pointing out, my dear, that Mr John Rokesmith is not (so far as I am acquainted with him), strictly speaking, a Mendicant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I may feel--nay, know--that in uniting herself to Mr Rokesmith she has united herself to one who is, in spite of shallow sophistry, a Mendicant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The mendicant orders are like those teachers whose subsistence depends altogether upon their industry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Possibly there were a few mendicants, and, in some restricted regions, religious pilgrims. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
弗朗西丝編輯