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A person the people around them refuse to accept — pushed away by their village, their school, their family, their society. The heart of the word is rejection by a group: not someone who chose to be alone, but someone the group turned its back on.
A person the people around them refuse to accept一個身邊的人不願意接納的人——pushed away by their village, their school, their family, their society被自己的村子、學校、家庭、社會排擠掉的人。The heart of the word is rejection by a group這個字的核心是被一個群體排斥：not someone who chose to be alone不是自己選擇孤獨的人，but someone the group turned its back on而是被群體背棄的人。
It is usually a countable noun ('he became an outcast', 'the outcasts of the city') and can also work as an adjective before a noun ('an outcast child').
It is usually a countable noun它通常是可數名詞（'he became an outcast', 'the outcasts of the city'像'he became an outcast'他成了一個被排斥的人、'the outcasts of the city'這座城市裡的邊緣人），and can also work as an adjective before a noun也可以當形容詞放在名詞前面（'an outcast child'像'an outcast child'一個被排斥的孩子）。
It carries real weight and pity; it is a literary and serious word, common in stories, history writing and social discussion, not in casual chat. A very common pairing is 'a social outcast', which it to someone who does not fit in and has no friends — a lonely student, for example.
It carries real weight and pity這個字帶有真切的沉重感和憐憫；it is a literary and serious word它是個文學性、嚴肅的字，common in stories, history writing and social discussion常出現在小說、歷史寫作和社會議題討論裡，not in casual chat不是日常聊天會用的。A very common pairing is 'a social outcast'一個很常見的搭配是'a social outcast'，which softens it to someone who does not fit in and has no friends語氣比較緩和，指的是一個格格不入、沒有朋友的人——a lonely student, for example比如一個孤單的學生。
Because the feeling is strong, English speakers sometimes use it lightly and dramatically about small things: 'I forgot the tickets, so now I'm the family outcast.'
Because the feeling is strong正因為這種感覺很強烈，English speakers sometimes use it lightly and dramatically about small things說英文的人有時候反而會拿它來輕鬆誇張地講一些小事：'I forgot the tickets, so now I'm the family outcast.'「I forgot the tickets, so now I'm the family outcast.」（我忘了帶票，現在變成家裡的邊緣人了）
原始詞典資料6 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。
outcastverb詞源 1/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
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To cast out; to banish.
- And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […]
- It means equal ruin to me, as the world reckons it — outcasting, the loss of my appointment, the breaking off my life's work. I pay my price.
outcastadj詞源 1/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
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That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
- O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
- We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
outcastnoun詞源 2/ˈaʊtkɑːst/
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One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
- If ever you chance upon the whole truth about any outcast or many, never tell it to just anybody, or at least not right away; unjust exclusion from a society is just one kind of hardship.
- The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
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Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
- Do you ever feel like an outcast? You don't have to fit into the format Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I
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A quarrel.
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The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
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。