➡ See also the entry for traveller另見traveller條tramp ♦︎ vagrant ♦︎ beggar ♦︎ drifter ♦︎ bum ♦︎ scroungerThese are all words for a person who travels from place to place and/or asks people for food or money.這些詞均表示流浪漢、乞丐。NOTE辨析 All the words in this group are disapproving or slightly disapproving. A frequent and more neutral way of talking about sb without a home is simply to say a homeless person/man/woman.本組所有的詞都含貶義或稍帶貶義。表示無家可歸的人更常用的中性說法是homeless person/man/woman◆The number of young homeless people is on the rise.無家可歸的青少年人數有上升趨勢。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆an old tramp / beggar / bum■tramp [countable] (sometimesdisapproving) a person who has no home or job and who travels from place to place, usually asking people in the street for food or money(常指在大街上乞討的)流浪漢,流浪乞丐◆An old tramp was sitting on a bench.一個老流浪漢坐在長椅上。■vagrant ˈveɪgrənt [countable] (formalorlaw法律) a tramp流浪漢;流浪乞丐◆The accused was a vagrant who travelled around, sleeping in parks and bus shelters.被告人是一個四處遊走的睡在公園和候車亭的流浪漢。■beggar ˈbegə(r) [countable] (sometimesdisapproving) a person who lives by asking people for money or food乞丐;叫花子◆There were a number of beggars sleeping in doorways.有一些乞丐睡在門口。 see also beg ⇨ borrow■drifter [countable] (especially NAmE, oftendisapproving) a person who moves from one job or place to another with no real purpose漂泊者;盲流◆Several hundred drifters spend the night in the park.幾百個遊民在公園過夜。■bum [countable] (informal, especially NAmE, oftendisapproving) a person who has no home or job and who asks other people for money or food; a person who does no work, but spends a lot of time in a place, doing very little流浪乞丐;無業遊民◆The city at night intimidated me with the bums and dealers shouting out abuse.這座城市入夜後會有流浪漢和攤販大聲叫罵,讓我驚恐不安。◆He left college to lead the life of a beach bum(= sb who spends all their time on the beach, without having a job).他離開了學校,終日在海灘遊蕩。■scrounger ˈskraʊndʒə(r) [countable] (especially BrE, informal, disapproving) a person who gets sth from sb by asking them for it rather than by paying for it; a person who gets money from the government without working for it向他人索要物品者;不工作向政府討救濟的人◆He's such a scrounger. He tried to get me to pay his air fare home.他就知道伸手討便宜,想讓我給他買回家的機票。◆The government has launched a campaign against welfare scroungers.政府已經發起了一個運動,抵制鑽福利制度漏洞的懶蟲。 see also scrounge ⇨ borrow