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    'Vagrancy' is the state of having no home and no work, and wandering from place to place — and, in the older law books, the crime of doing so. For a long time in Britain and America there were 'vagrancy laws': if the police found you sleeping in the street, with no money and no job, they could arrest you for vagrancy itself, not for anything you had done to anyone. That is the sense the dictionary is giving you here. You should know that this is now mostly a historical and legal word. Many of those laws have been struck down or quietly dropped, because people came to see that punishing someone for being poor is not really justice. So today you meet 'vagrancy' in three places: history books, legal writing, and news stories arguing about how cities treat homeless people. In ordinary conversation nobody says it — a modern speaker says 'homelessness'. And the two words are not the same in feeling: 'homelessness' points at a problem people are suffering, while 'vagrancy' points at a person being blamed. Choose carefully.

    遊蕩罪、流浪(舊法律上的罪名:無家、無業、在街上遊蕩本身就構成犯罪);現代談街友議題一般用 homelessness 無家可歸

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組成vagrant + -cy. The ending -cy turns a word about a person or a quality into a word about the state or condition of being that thing: 'president' → 'presidency', 'private' → 'privacy', 'accurate' → 'accuracy'. So vagrancy = the condition of being a vagrant.

同家族的字

  • vagrantthe word vagrancy is built directly from
  • presidencysame -cy ending, naming a state or condition
  • privacysame -cy ending, naming a state or condition

原始詞典資料1 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。

vagrancynoun/ˈveɪɡɹənsɪ/

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    the state of being a vagrant

    • vagrancy laws
    • charge of vagrancy

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