| 单词 | dharma bum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdharma bum dharma bum n. a person who lives as a vagrant, or in an apparently aimless or purposeless way, in fulfilment of a higher spiritual duty.Originally in the writings of Jack Kerouac, and used in the title of his third novel, The Dharma Bums (1958). ΚΠ 1956 J. Kerouac Let. May in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 584 It will just have to be the old amorphous ungraspable dharma bums..sidling around the authorities and coming in on the train the other end of the yards, going thru the world unobtrusive. 1992 Esquire July 121/1 Looking out on the sand for the first time, those two Jefferson-era dharma bums did not see what I see, unless Native Americans were stiffed the credit for introducing volleyball to the white man. 2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 July 46/1 Roy Choi is the dharma bum of the Los Angeles food scene, a Zen lunatic bard of the city's immigrant streets. < as lemmas |
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