| 单词 | pauper |
| 释义 | pauper (once / 1179 pages) n Pauper is an old-fashioned word for someone who is poor — really poor, like the paupers described by Charles Dickens or Mark Twain. The noun pauper has been around for over 500 years, but today, the word tends to mostly crop up in literature. If people use it in conversation, they tend to use the word self-deprecatingly. "I'm sorry, I can't afford to go with you to the movies. I'm living like a pauper this week, until I get paid." WORD FAMILYpauper: pauperise, pauperism, pauperize, paupers+/pauperise: pauperisation, pauperised, pauperises, pauperising/pauperize: pauperization, pauperized, pauperizes, pauperizing USAGE EXAMPLESHe read up on matricide, the crime of killing one's mother, political prisoners, "lying in state", coffins and arrangements for a pauper's funeral. BBC(Nov 23, 2016) By early Thursday morning, the Chicago Cubs had won, 8-7, and been crowned kings, and the Cleveland Indians remained paupers. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) They weren’t paupers in their campaigns, but they spent significantly less than the two congressmen. Washington Times(Nov 13, 2016) n a person who is very poor Exp|Hypo|Hyper Lazarus the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar beggar, mendicant a pauper who lives by begging derelicta person without a home, job, or property starvelingsomeone who is starving (or being starved) beggarmana man who is a beggar beggarwomana woman who is a beggar cadger, mooch, moocher, scroungersomeone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) panhandlera beggar who approaches strangers asking for money sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasia Hindu religious mendicant have-not, poor person a person with few or no possessions |
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