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bum noun
⇨ tramp tramp noun ➡ See also the entry for ⇨ traveller 另见traveller条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. 这些词均表示流浪汉、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. 本组所有的词都含贬义或稍带贬义。表示无家可归的人更常用的中性说法是homeless person/man/woman◆The number of young homeless people is on the rise.无家可归的青少年人数有上升趋势。 PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆an old tramp / beggar / bum■ tramp [countable] (sometimes disapproving) 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 （常指在大街上乞讨的）流浪汉，流浪乞丐◆An old tramp was sitting on a bench.一个老流浪汉坐在长椅上。■ vagrant / /ˈveɪgrənt/ / [countable] (formal or law 法律) a tramp 流浪汉；流浪乞丐◆The accused was a vagrant who travelled around, sleeping in parks and bus shelters.被告人是一个四处游走的睡在公园和候车亭的流浪汉。■ beggar / /ˈbegə(r)/ / [countable] (sometimes disapproving) 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.有一些乞丐睡在门口。 see also beg ⇨ borrow ■ drifter [countable] (especially NAmE, often disapproving) 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.几百个游民在公园过夜。■ bum [countable] (informal, especially NAmE, often disapproving) 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；无业游民◆The city at night intimidated me with the bums and dealers shouting out abuse.这座城市入夜后会有流浪汉和摊贩大声叫骂，让我惊恐不安。◆He left college to lead the life of a beach bum (= sb who spends all their time on the beach, without having a job).他离开了学校，终日在海滩游荡。■ 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；不工作向政府讨救济的人◆He's such a scrounger. He tried to get me to pay his air fare home.他就知道伸手讨便宜，想让我给他买回家的机票。◆The government has launched a campaign against welfare scroungers.政府已经发起了一个运动，抵制钻福利制度漏洞的懒虫。 see also scrounge ⇨ borrow |