浪人 (làng rén) — vagrant; drifter; unemployed person; (historical Japanese context) ronin; masterless samurai
Definition
Literally 'wandering person': a vagrant or drifter with no home or job, and historically a masterless samurai (ronin) in Edo-period Japan. The Japanese historical sense is the one most often encountered in texts at this level.
noun
vagrantdrifterunemployed person(historical Japanese context) roninmasterless samurai
Measure word · 个
Examples
- 浪人，。Nà ge làng rén zài jiē shàng liú làng le hǎo jǐ nián, méi yǒu jiā yě méi yǒu gōng zuò.That drifter wandered the streets for years, with neither a home nor a job.
- ，，浪人。Zài rì běn de jiāng hù shí dài, zhǔ jūn sǐ hòu, làng rén jīng cháng sì chù piāo bó xún zhǎo xīn de xiào zhōng duì xiàng.During Japan's Edo period, after their lord died, ronin often wandered in search of a new lord to serve.
- 浪人，。Hěn duō làng rén hòu lái jiā rù le làng rén jí tuán, chéng wéi dì fāng wǔ zhuāng lì liàng.Many ronin later joined ronin bands and became local armed forces.
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