记忆方法
将“mendicant”分解为“mend”和“cant”。想象“mend”意味着修补，而“cant”在这里可以联想到唱歌或吟唱。所以，可以想象一个修补工（mend）在街头吟唱（cant）歌曲，以此来记忆“mendicant”这个词，它通常指的是一个流浪的乞丐或托钵僧。
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词族 · mendicant
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中文词源
mendicant 行乞者，化缘者
来自拉丁语mendicare,乞讨，讨要，来自menda,缺陷，身体残疾，来自PIE*mend,缺陷，残疾，词源同amend.因乞讨者多为身体残疾者。引申词义行乞者，化缘者。
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. He seemed not an ordinary mendicant.
- 他好象不是寻常的乞丐。
- 2. This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly helpless.
- 这可爱的赤裸的乞儿,假装全然无助.
- 3. A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
- 托钵修会修士常化缘的罗马天主教会成员.
- 4. Then the mendicant did it.
- 接着乞丐就做了倒立.
- 5. A fifth order, the Servites, founded in 1233, was acknowledged as mendicant order in 1424.
- 第五一声令下, servites, 成立于1233年, 被认定为乞讨,以便在1424年.