beggar
beggar — 名詞
1. a very poor person who gets food or small amounts of money from strangers by ask
乞丐
靠乞討維生的窮人
a very poor person who gets food or small amounts of money from strangers by asking for help
A beggar sat outside the station with a paper cup.
一名乞丐拿著紙杯坐在車站外。
beggar + sit outside [place]
Near the bridge, an old beggar asked tourists for bread.
在橋邊，一名老乞丐向觀光客討麵包。
ask somebody for food or money
Rain soaked the beggar's blanket during the night market.
夜市時下起雨，把那名乞丐的毯子淋濕了。
At the bus stop, there was a beggar holding a cardboard sign.
在公車站那裡，有個乞丐舉著一塊紙板牌子。
A young beggar shared his soup with a stray dog.
一名年輕乞丐把自己的湯分給一隻流浪狗。
- panhandler
mainly American and usually means someone asking strangers in public for small amounts of money
- mendicant
formal and more likely in writing than in everyday speech
- pauper
means a very poor person, not necessarily someone asking in the street
文法句型
a beggar asks for money
a beggar in the street
give money to a beggar
用法筆記
Usually refers to someone living by asking strangers for food or money in public places. Distinguish from noun/2, which is an informal way to talk about a person and often follows an adjective.
常見錯誤
2. a person, talked about with sympathy, envy, or annoyance, especially after an ad
傢伙
帶情緒地稱某個人
a person, talked about with sympathy, envy, or annoyance, especially after an adjective
Poor beggar, Ken missed the last train home again.
Ken 這可憐傢伙，又錯過回家的末班車了。
adjective + beggar
Lucky beggar, Mia won backstage tickets on her first try.
Mia 這傢伙真走運，第一次試就抽到後台票。
The silly beggar locked his keys inside the van.
那個傻傢伙把鑰匙鎖在廂型車裡了。
That poor beggar slipped on the wet steps outside school.
那個可憐傢伙在學校外面的濕階梯上滑倒了。
Old beggar, Mr. Shaw still bikes to work at eighty.
Mr. Shaw 這老傢伙，八十歲了還騎腳踏車去上班。
文法句型
poor beggar
lucky beggar
silly beggar
用法筆記
Usually follows an adjective such as poor, lucky, silly, or old, and it is mostly spoken and informal. Distinguish from noun/1, which means a person who lives by begging.
常見錯誤
beggar — 動詞
1. to drive a person, group, or organization into extreme poverty
使赤貧
使人或機構窮到不行
to drive a person, group, or organization into extreme poverty
Years of war beggared farming towns across the northern plain.
多年的戰爭使北方平原上的農村城鎮陷入赤貧。
beggar + group or place
The hospital was beggared by repair costs after the flood.
洪水後的修繕費使那家醫院陷入赤貧。
passive: be beggared by [cause]
One bad loan nearly beggared the family business in June.
一筆壞帳在六月時差點使那間家族企業赤貧。
By winter, the long strike had beggared many small shops.
到了冬天，那場長期罷工已使許多小店家陷入赤貧。
Rising rent could beggar older artists living near the market.
不斷上漲的房租可能使住在市場附近的年長藝術家陷入赤貧。
- impoverish
close in meaning and often used in social or economic discussion
- ruin
broader and can describe non-financial damage as well
- bankrupt
more specific to money and often to businesses or legal status
- enrich
means to make someone or something richer
文法句型
beggar + person
beggar + organization
be beggared by + cause
用法筆記
Object is usually a person, family, town, business, or other organization harmed by war, debt, disaster, or heavy costs. Distinguish from the rejected fixed-expression use in beggar belief, where the idea is not about poverty.