Vagrant & Vagabond

 









vagrant



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[vey-gruhnt] 



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–noun 

1. a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp. 



2. Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.

3. a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.

4. wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage: vagrant beggars. 

5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a vagrant: the vagrant life.  



–adjective 

6. wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.

7. (of plants) straggling in growth.

8. not fixed or settled, esp. in course; moving hither and thither: a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.  



straggle

掉隊,落伍,流離

散落,四散,零星地出現(或離開)





 　

Vincent Gallo, a downtown New York artist active since the early eighties as a musician, photographer, painter, model, actor, and filmmaker, has a [face] like a rusty hatchet (needle nose, scraggly [beard]), damp inky hair, and an unnerving stare. 



In "Buffalo '66" (1998), the first feature-length movie Gallo directed, he plays a recently released con looking for a place to pee. After finding it, he picks up a willing teen-ager (Christina Ricci), but, instead of having sex with her, takes her to visit his nasty parents—a new low in the history of perversity. The movie’s prickly, vagrant humor was odd and unsatisfying. 



hatchet

(北美印第安人用作武器或工具的) 輕便斧

scrag

骨瘦如柴的人

絞(首),扭住...的脖子

scraggly

鋸齒狀的,凸凹不平的





impish

lass

lad

a young [lad] and his [lass]. 

The lad is determined to let his acting do the talking 

swain

a love-sick swain

waif

Nubile