mendicancy

['mɛndɪkənsi]
  • n. 乞丐生活；乞讨；托钵
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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.

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