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    A castaway is someone left alone after a ship is lost — typically washed up on an island, with little or nothing. The word is made from cast away, “thrown aside.” Stories love this figure: Robinson Crusoe is the famous one, and films still use it. It can be a noun (a castaway) or, less often, an adjective (a castaway sailor). Though actually, real people in that situation are shipwreck survivors; castaway belongs a little more to stories and headlines than to hospitals and courts. It is a person, not a thing you threw away — that would be a cast-off.

    漂流者；船難後流落荒島的人

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組成Deverbal from the phrasal verb cast away (cast “throw” + away).

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  • castthe verb throw
  • cast-offsame idea of throwing away, but for things, not people

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

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castawayadj/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/

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    Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

    • After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
  • 2

    Shipwrecked.

    • The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
  • 3

    Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

castawaynoun/ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/

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    nauticaltransportA shipwrecked sailor.

    • Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
  • 2

    A discarded person or thing.

    • This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
  • 3

    An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

    • These homeless people are society's castaways.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。