单词
mendicancy
['mɛndɪkənsi]
基本信息
- n. 乞丐生活；乞讨；托钵
英文词源
- mendicancy (n.)
- "state or condition of beggary," 1790, from mendicant + -cy. Also in this sense was mendicity (c. 1400), from Old French mendicité "begging," from Latin mendicitatem (nominative mendicitas) "beggary, mendicity."
双语例句
- 1. They were reduced to mendicancy.
- 他们沦落成了乞丐.
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