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A fakir is a holy man who lives very simply, often with almost no money, and may travel from place to place. In English the word is used for some Muslim holy men and, more loosely, for some Hindu holy men too. Though actually, the Arabic word it comes from just means “a poor man”. In older English stories and films, a fakir is sometimes shown as a street performer who lies on nails or does strange tricks; that picture is messy and not always kind or true. The word feels a little old and more at home in books than in everyday talk.
托缽僧；苦行僧（遊方的伊斯蘭或印度教聖人）
組成Borrowed from Arabic faqīr, “poor man”.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
fakirnoun/fəˈkiɹ/
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IslamlifestylereligionA religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
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An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
- The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
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derogatorySomeone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
- He denounces no one until he has all the damaging facts in hand, very frequently backed up with affidavits. He 'Lawsonized' certain stock jobbers and financial fakirs of London before the Boston advertising man was heard of.
- "But a stranger who had come up to the group just at this point, when they were pronouncing the soup delicious, laughed aloud. "'What a set of fools you all are!' he cried. 'This tramp is just a fakir. That stone had nothing to do with the soup."
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。