straggler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈstɹæɡlə/    美 /ˈstɹæɡlɚ/|/ˈstɹæɡl̩ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
    — She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
  2. One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
    — This isn't the 1970s, when the UK stood out as the European straggler.
  3. One who roams without any settled direction.
  4. A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
  5. A roving vagabond.
  6. Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
  7. Something that stands alone or by itself.

词形变化

stragglers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
blue straggler straggler daisy

词源

Etymology tree
English straggle
English -er
English straggler
From straggle + -er.
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