castaway

FREQ #42033

n. 被抛弃的人, 坐船遇难者 a. 被抛弃的, 遭难的

发音

US /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/
UK /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/
UK /ˈkæstəweɪ/

词形变化

castaways 复数 castaways

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A shipwrecked sailor.

    航海 交通

    Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

  2. 2.

    A discarded person or thing.

    This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

  3. 3.

    An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

    These homeless people are society's castaways.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

    After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.

  2. 2.

    Shipwrecked.

    The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

  3. 3.

    Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

outcast pariah Ishmael

上位词 1

unfortunate

下位词 5

untouchable heretic leper Harijan misbeliever

词源

Deverbal from cast away.

来源：wiktionary