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 truant ['tru:әnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 懒惰的人, 玩忽职守者, 旷课者

a. 偷懒的, 旷课的, 游荡的

vi. 偷懒, 旷课




    truant
    [ noun ]
    1. one who is absent from school without permission

    2. <noun.person>
    3. someone who shirks duty

    4. <noun.person>
    [ adj ]
    1. absent without permission

    2. <adj.all>
      truant schoolboys
      the soldier was AWOL for almost a week


    Truant \Tru"ant\, n. [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar;
    of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable,
    truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor,
    distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.]
    One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one
    who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer;
    a shirk. --Dryden.

    I have a truant been to chivalry. --Shak.

    {To play truant}, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to
    stay out of school without leave. --Sir T. Browne


    Truant \Tru"ant\, a.
    Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and
    shirking duty; as, a truant boy.

    While truant Jove, in infant pride,
    Played barefoot on Olympus' side. --Trumbull.


    Truant \Tru"ant\, v. i. [Cf. F. truander.]
    To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
    --Shak.

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


    Truant \Tru"ant\, v. t.
    To idle away; to waste. [R.]

    I dare not be the author
    Of truanting the time. --Ford.

    1. Only 5 per cent were in full-time employment. School was generally regarded as useful and only 3.3 per cent admitted to playing truant for 'weeks at a time'.
    2. In bygone days they'd have called Muhammad a truant officer.
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