waif是什么意思_waif怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

waif (n.): late 14c., "unclaimed property, flotsam, stray animal," from Anglo-French waif (13c., Old French guaif) "ownerless property, something lost;" as an adjective, "not claimed, outcast, abandoned," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse veif "waving thing, flag," from Proto-Germanic *waif-, from PIE *weip- "to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically" (see vibrate). Compare Medieval Latin waivium "thing thrown away by a thief in flight." A Scottish/northern English parallel form was wavenger (late 15c.).

Meaning "person (especially a child) without home or friends" first attested 1784, from legal phrase waif and stray (1620s), from the adjective in the sense "lost, strayed, homeless." Neglected children being uncommonly thin, the word tended toward this sense. Connotations of "fashionable, small, slender woman" began 1991 with application to childishly slim supermodels such as Kate Moss.

词态变化

复数 waifs;
形容词 waif-like;

1. The director wants a waif-like, teenage girl with long, dark hair for the role.: 导演想要一个留着乌黑的长发、面黄肌瘦的十来岁女孩扮演这个角色。

2. Maybe I should play this needy, despondent waif card more often.: 也许我应该用用这个迷惑, 多需求的招牌.

stray 走失的家畜

vagabond 流浪汉

gamin 流浪儿

soul 灵魂

urchin 顽童

orphan 孤儿

ragamuffin 衣衫褴褛的人（尤指衣衫褴...

foundling 弃儿

street child 街头流浪儿

waif and see policy 【法】观望政策

maintain railways 养路

brain drain n.智囊流失,人才外流

detail by detail 逐一地

against the grain 反方向；违背意愿，使反感，使不快

air raid n. 空袭

rail against 责骂,挑剔,抱怨

braided drainage 辫状水系

maintain oneself 自立,坚持己见

prevail against 胜过,战胜

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1. wave => waive => waif.
2. 就像波浪一样随波逐流。
3. 萍水相逢，萍水相逢尽是他乡之客，身世浮沉雨打萍。
4. => 飘流物，流浪汉，无家可归者，(尤指)流浪儿。
5. 【记法】分解为：wai（外）＋f（放）
6. 【联想】一个被外放的人是无家可归的