truant

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 truant、truand、trewande、trowant（平行於中古荷蘭語 trouwant、trawant、truwant），源自古法語 truand、truant (「流浪漢，乞丐；乞丐一樣的」)，源自凱爾特語族，可能源自高盧語 *trugan，或源自布列塔尼語 truan (「悲慘的」)，源自原始凱爾特語 *térh₁-tro-m，最終源自原始印歐語 *terh₁-。

同源詞有蘇格蘭蓋爾語 truaghan、愛爾蘭語 trogha (「貧困的」)、trogán、布列塔尼語 truc (「乞丐」)、威爾士語 tru。

發音

• 韻部：-ʊənt
• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈtɹʊənt/, /ˈtɹuː.ənt/

• （英國南部）音頻：

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形容詞

truant (無比較級)

1. 曠課的，翹課的

   He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendances to meet the requirement.

   因為他習慣性地翹課導致出席時間達不到要求，所以他沒能畢業。

2. 曠工的；無所事事的，懶散的
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet
   • 1772, John Trumbull, The Owl and the Sparrow，第 149 頁:

     While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • Template:RQ:Dryden Georgics
   • Template:RQ:Thackeray Pendennis
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, 章號 I, 出自 The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

衍生詞彙

• truant officer

名詞

truant (複數 truants)

1. 曠工者；（尤指）曠課者

衍生詞彙

• play truant

動詞

truant (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 truants，現在分詞 truanting，一般過去時及過去分詞 truanted)

1. (不及物) 曠課

   the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted

   有曠課記錄的學生數量

2. (及物) 浪費，無所事事地度過
   • Template:RQ:John Ford Fancies
3. 虛度光陰
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, 「The Comedie of Errors」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Tis double vvrong , to truant vvith your bed

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • Template:RQ:Lowell Among My Books2

     By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

異序詞

• traunt