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mendicancy的意思

mendicancy

基本解释

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."

实用例句

1. They were reduced to mendicancy.
他们沦落成了乞丐.
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