喜樂美語
  1. 1貧民；赤貧的人

    A pauper is someone who is extremely poor — so poor they have almost nothing. In older English, especially in law, a pauper was a person so poor that the town or the state had to look after them. Today the word sounds old, , or a little like a play. In ordinary talk we say a very poor person. People sometimes joke I am a pauper this month after spending too much; that is light, not literal. Used about a real person in front of you, it can feel cold. Though actually, a pauper is not the same as a beggar. A beggar asks in the street; a pauper is simply very poor, whether they ask or not.

core核心畫面

組成從拉丁文 pauper（窮的）借入的書面詞。一開始是法律用語。

同家族的字

  • poordoublet — both come from Latin pauper, 'poor'
  • povertyfrom the same Latin root for being poor

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

paupernoun/ˈpɔːpə/

  • 1

    One who is extremely poor.

    • He has hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank, and he lives like a pauper!
  • 2

    One living on or eligible for public charity.

pauperverb/ˈpɔːpə/

  • 1

    To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty.

    • “There’s no sense in you paupering yourself because you’re too stubborn to take my money.” ¶ “I’m not paupering myself.”

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。