mendicancy
英 ['mendɪkənsɪ]
美 ['mendɪkənsɪ]
- n. 乞丐生活；乞讨；托钵
英语词源
- 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."
权威例句
- 1. They were reduced to mendicancy.
- 他们沦落成了乞丐.